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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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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