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 IBSENI am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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