Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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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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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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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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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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