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 IBSENTo see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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