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

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.

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

But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.