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.
HENRIK IBSENIn your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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