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A Doll's House (1879)
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Rank.'Certainly. However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible.
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I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Helmer:
I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora – bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honor for the one he loves.
Nora:
It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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If I'm ever to reach any understanding of myself and the things around me, I must learn to stand alone. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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I have another duty equally sacred... My duty to myself.
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There is a big black hat and it makes you invisible. Have you heard of that hat? You put it on and then no one can see you.
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Nora.'Look here, Doctor Rank - you know you want to live.
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The black, cold, icy water. Down and down, without end — if it would only end.
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I have other duties equally sacred … Duties to myself.
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Our house has never been anything but a playroom. I have been your doll wife, just as at home I was Daddy's doll child. And the children in turn have been my dolls. I thought it was fun when you came and played with me, just as they thought it was fun when I went and played with them. That's been our marriage, Torvald.
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Helmer:
First and foremost, you are a wife and mother.
Nora:
That I don't believe any more. I believe that first and foremost I am an individual, just as you are.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
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I don't know whether you find also in your part of the world that there are certain people who go zealously snuffing about to smell out moral corruption, and, as soon as they have found some, put the person concerned into some lucrative position where they can keep their eye on him. Healthy natures are left out in the cold.
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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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But our home's been nothing but a playpen. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Papa's doll-child. And in turn the children have been my dolls. I thought it fun when you played with me, just as they thought it fun when I played with them. That's been our marriage, Torvald.
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan
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Born:
March 20, 1828
Died:
May 23, 1906
(aged 78)
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