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 most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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The devil is compromise.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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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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