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" What I chiefly desire for you," wrote Ibsen to Brandes at the outset of his career, "is a genuine, full-blooded egoism, which shall force you for a time to regard what concerns you yourself as the only thing of any consequence, and everything else as... "
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The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen - Authors, Norwegian - 1905 - 476 pages
...disease out of the body. Energetic productivity is a capital specific. What I chiefly desire for you is a genuine, full-blooded egoism, which shall force you for a time to regard what concerns you yourself as the only thing of any consequence, and everything else as non-existent. Now don't take...
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Letters of Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen - Authors, Norwegian - 1905 - 480 pages
...disease out of the body. Energetic productivity is a capital specific. What I chiefly desire for you is a genuine, full-blooded egoism, which shall force you for a time to regard what concerns you yourself as the only thing of any consequence, and everything else as non-existent. Now don't take...
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The Living Age, Volume 251

Literature - 1906 - 858 pages
...Studies." By George Brandes. London: Heinemann, lS99. from everything outside that has no connection with it." He bids Brandes cultivate "a genuine, full-blooded...cannot get rid of the burden, as Nietzsche does. He has leas courage than Nietzsche, though no less logic, and is held back from a complete realization of...
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The Bookman, Volume 24

Popular culture - 1907 - 990 pages
...Brandes, in whom Ibsen most profoundly believed, the dramatist writes: What I chiefly desire for you is a genuine, full-blooded egoism which shall force you for a time to regard what concerns yourself as the only thing of any consequence, and everything else as non-existent. Now don't take...
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Aspects of Modern Drama

Frank Wadleigh Chandler - Drama - 1914 - 524 pages
...to salvation is "a genuine fullblooded egoism which will force you to regard what concerns yourself as the only thing of any consequence, and everything else as non-existent." His thought is negative because it advocates the destruction of the fabric of society, and offers nothing...
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The Freeman, Volume 3

Francis Neilson, Albert Jay Nock - History, Modern - 1921 - 644 pages
...them. "WHAT I chiefly desire for you," wrote Ibsen to Georg Brandes at the outset of his career, "is a genuine, fullblooded egoism, which shall force you for a time to regard what concerns you yourself as the only thing of anv consequence, and everything else as non-existent There is no way...
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Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans, Volume 10

Harold Stearns - History - 1922 - 610 pages
...spirits. " What I chiefly desire for you," wrote Ibsen to Brandes at the outset of his career, " is a genuine, full-blooded egoism, which shall force you for a time to regard what concerns you yourself as the only thing of any consequence, and everything else as nonexistent. . . . There is no...
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Emerson and Others

Van Wyck Brooks - American literature - 1927 - 268 pages
...individual spirits. "What I chiefly desire for you," wrote Ibsen to Brandes at the outset of his career, "is a genuine, full-blooded egoism, which shall force you for a time to regard what concerns you yourself as the only thing of any consequence, and everything else as non-existent. . . . There is...
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Emerson and Others

Van Wyck Brooks - American literature - 1927 - 268 pages
...genuine, full-blooded egoism, which shall force you for a time to regard what concerns you yourself as the only thing of any consequence, and everything else as non-existent. . . . There is no way in which you can benefit society more than by coining the metal you have in yourself."...
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Chapters in Norwegian Literature: Being the Substance of Public Lectures ...

Ingebrigt Christopher Grøndahl, Ola Raknes - Authors, Norwegian - 1923 - 328 pages
...to speak of in Ibsen's case. In one of his first letters to Brandes he recommends him to develop " a genuine, full-blooded egoism, which shall force...time to regard what concerns you as the only thing of consequence and everything else as non-existent." He speaks of friends as an expensive luxury. However,...
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