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Quotes from A Doll's House — Henrik Ibsen

1828–1906 Norway

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14 quotes

I've the most extraordinary longing to say 'Bloody Hell'!

A Doll's House (1879)

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

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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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Rank.Certainly. However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible."

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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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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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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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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.

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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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Nora.Look here, Doctor Rank - you know you want to live.

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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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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.

A Doll's House (1879)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henrik Ibsen (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.