And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
HENRIK IBSENThe starving poet business is no good nowadays.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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 hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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.
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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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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us 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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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