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.
HENRIK IBSENIn your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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