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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.

Henrik Ibsen

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.

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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.

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