Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The devil is compromise.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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