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1. "HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties?NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty?HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children?NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred.HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean?NORA: My duty to myself." ~ Henrik Ibsen
2. "Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right." ~ Henrik Ibsen
3. "Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time." ~ Henrik Ibsen
4. "Don't use that exotic word "ideals". We have a good enough native word: "lies"." ~ Henrik Ibsen
5. "I must make up my mind which is right – society or I." ~ Henrik Ibsen
6. "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 Ibsen
7. "Nora: It's true Torvald. When I lived at home with Papa, he used to tell me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinion. If I thought differently, I had to hide it from him, or he wouldn't have liked it. He called me his little doll, and he used to play with me just as I played with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house -Helmer: That's no way to talk about our marriage!Nora [undisturbed]: I mean when I passed out of Papa's hands into yours. You arranged everything to suit your own tastes, and so I came to have the same tastes as yours.. or I pretended to. I'm not quite sure which.. perhaps it was a bit of both -- sometimes one and sometimes the other. Now that I come to look at it, I've lived here like a pauper -- simply from hand to mouth. I've lived by performing tricks for you, Torvald. That was how you wanted it. You and Papa have committed a grievous sin against me: it's your fault that I've made nothing of my life." ~ Henrik Ibsen
8. "Hør, ved De hvordan en dyretæmmerfår lært sin bjørn, hvad den aldrig glemmer?I en bryggerkedel han binder dyret; -så blir der tæt under kedlen fyret. Imidlertid han på positivetspiller for bamsen: "Fryd dig ved livet!"Af smerte knapt kan den lodne sanse; han kan ikke stå, og så må han danse. Og spilles siden den melodi ham, -fluks farer en dansende djævel i ham. -" ~ Henrik Ibsen
9. "A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed." ~ Henrik Ibsen
10. "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone." ~ Henrik Ibsen
11. "The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right." ~ Henrik Ibsen
12. "It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians." ~ Henrik Ibsen
13. "Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed." ~ Henrik Ibsen
14. "The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society." ~ Henrik Ibsen
15. "The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes." ~ Henrik Ibsen
16. "Vogt dig, barn, for tjernets strømme.Farligt, farligt der at drømme!Nøkken lader som han sover;liljer leger ovenover." ~ Henrik Ibsen
17. "People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind." ~ Henrik Ibsen
18. "Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they ofiron or of gold." ~ Henrik Ibsen
19. "Dr. Stockmann. I have already told you that what I want to speak about is the great discovery I have made lately--the discovery that all the sources of our moral life are poisoned and that the hole fabric of our civic community is founded on the pestiferous soil of falsehood." ~ Henrik Ibsen
20. "Úgy értem, hogy papa kezébol a tiédbe kerültem. Itt te mindent a magad ízlése szerint rendeztél be, s így nekem ugyanaz lett az ízlésem, ami neked, vagy legalább úgy tettem, nem is tudom igazán… úgy gondolom, mindketto igaz; hol az egyik, hol a másik. De ahogy most nézem, mintha úgy éltem volna itt, mint egy szegény ember, aki csak a betevo falatját keresi meg. Abból éltem, hogy mókáztam neked, Torvald. De hát te így akartad. Te és a papa nagy bunt követtetek el ellenem. Ti vagytok a hibásak benne, hogy semmi sem lett belolem." ~ Henrik Ibsen
21. "Helmer: Nem voltál boldog? Nóra: Nem; csak vidám." ~ Henrik Ibsen
22. "Nóra: Más feladat az, amit elobb meg kell oldanom. Magamat kell megnevelnem. S te nem vagy az a férfi, aki segíthetsz ebben. Ezt egyedül kell megcsinálnom. (…) Ha meg akarom érteni magamat, s az egész környezetemet, egészen egyedül kell állnom." ~ Henrik Ibsen
23. "Nóra: ...Azt hiszem, hogy legelsosorban ember vagyok, éppen úgy, mint te - vagy mindenesetre meg kell kísérelnem, hogy az legyek. Jól tudom, hogy a legtöbben neked adnak igazat, Torvald; valami olyasmi van a könyvekben is. De én nem törodhetek vele tovább, hogy a többség mit mond, s mi van a könyvekben. Magamnak kell a dolgokat átgondolnom, s tisztába jönnöm velük." ~ Henrik Ibsen
24. "Nora. I know nothing but what the clergyman said, when I went to be confirmed. He told us that religion was this, and that, and the other. When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for" ~ Henrik Ibsen
25. "You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with." ~ Henrik Ibsen
26. "It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them." ~ Henrik Ibsen
27. "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." ~ Henrik Ibsen
28. "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 judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view." ~ Henrik Ibsen
29. "What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen." ~ Henrik Ibsen
30. "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." ~ Henrik Ibsen
31. "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." ~ Henrik Ibsen
32. "Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?" ~ Henrik Ibsen
33. "El hombre más poderoso del mundo es el que está más solo" ~ Henrik Ibsen
34. "But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style." ~ Henrik Ibsen
35. "Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke." ~ Henrik Ibsen
36. "Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won." ~ Henrik Ibsen
37. "One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born." ~ Henrik Ibsen
38. "A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years—seldom longer." ~ Henrik Ibsen
39. "[From below comes the noise of a door slamming.]" ~ Henrik Ibsen
40. "The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time." ~ Henrik Ibsen
41. "Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse." ~ Henrik Ibsen
42. "One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it." ~ Henrik Ibsen
43. "Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'" ~ Henrik Ibsen
44. "Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth." ~ Henrik Ibsen
45. "Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man." ~ Henrik Ibsen
46. "The devil is compromise." ~ Henrik Ibsen
47. "To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind" ~ Henrik Ibsen
48. "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." ~ Henrik Ibsen
49. "A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ..." ~ Henrik Ibsen
50. "Sjel, vær trofast til det siste!Seirens seir er alt å miste.Tapets alt din vinning skapte; -evig eies kun det tapte." ~ Henrik Ibsen
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