Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
Henrik IbsenTo live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Henrik IbsenBut I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that โwalksโ 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.
Henrik IbsenHELMER; 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.
Henrik Ibsen