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 majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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