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 IBSENThere 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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The devil is compromise.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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 costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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