I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
It is no use lying to one’s self.
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
The man-at-arms is the only man.
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney...
One should never put on one’s best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”