“It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.”
“It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.”
“Good god, people don't do such things!”
“Do think it quite incomprehensible that a young girl—when it can be done—without any one knowing—should be glad to have a peep, now and then, into a world which—which she is forbidden to know anything about?”
“Oh, what curse is it that makes everything I touch turn ludicrous and mean?”
“I am burning—I am burning your child.”
“I can see him already—with vine-leaves in his hair—flushed and fearless.”
“Eljert Lovborg...listen to me...couldn't you let it happen beautifully?”
Henrik Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway. In 1862, he was exiled to Italy, where he wrote the tragedy Brand. In 1868, Ibsen moved to Germany, where he wrote one of his most famous works: the play A Doll's House. In 1890, he wrote Hedda Gabler, creating one of theater's most notorious characters. By 1891, Ibsen had returned to Norway a literary hero. He died on May 23, 1906, in Oslo, Norway.
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