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A friend married is a friend lost.

Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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