Henrik Ibsen

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

We will talk of this again, when the grass has first withered on her grave. Then you'll hear him spouting about "the child too early torn from her father's heart;" then you'll see him steep himself in a syrup of sentiment and self-admiration and self-pity. Just you wait!

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?

She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men__ boots in bad weather

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls.

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.

NORA: No; only merry. And you were always so friendly and kind to me. But our house has been nothing but a nursery. Here I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I used to be papa's doll-child. And my children were, in their turn, my dolls. I was exceedingly delighted when you played with me, just as children were whenever I played with them. That has been our marriage, Torvald.

NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed it, because he would not have liked people with opinions of their own. He used to call me his little doll, and play with me, as I in my turn used to play with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house.

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?

I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

People so easily forget their past selves.

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.