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 IBSENThe strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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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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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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