To live – is to war with fiends, that infest the brain and the heart. To write – is to summon one’s self, and play the judge’s part.[At leve er krig med trolde i hjertets og hjernens hvælv; at digte – det er at holde dommedag over sig selv.][Often paraphrased “To live is to war against the trolls.”]
Source:Letter to Ludwig Passarge (June 16, 1880); The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen (ed. Hodder and Stoughton, 1905), Page 334
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