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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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