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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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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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Henrik Johan Ibsen
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