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 will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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 am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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