Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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