Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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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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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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