VII, 69
Source: Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
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At leve er — krig med trolde
i hjertets og hjernens hvælv.
At digte, — det er at holde
dommedag over sig selv.
Et vers (A Verse), inscribed on the volume Poems (1877)
Ibsen may have written this originally in German http://www.ibsen.net/index.gan?id=110602&subid=0 as a dedication to a female reader. It was published in German in Deutsche Rundschau in November 1886:
Leben, das heisst bekriegen
In Herz und Hirn die Gewalten;
Und dichten; über sich selber
Den Gerichtstag halten.
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"The Disillusioned", in The Balconinny, and Other Essays ([1929] 1969) p. 30.
