It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
HENRIK IBSENMost 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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