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.

Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

The man-at-arms is the only man.

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.

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.