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"Hide the Christmas...
...tree carefully." - Nora
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"A room furnished...
...comfortably and tastefully." - Stage directions
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"A fire burns in the stove...
...It is winter." - Stage directions
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"Yes, he is...
...in." - Nora
4 of 113
"Is that my little lark...
...twittering out there?" - Torvald
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"We can borrow...
...until then." - Nora
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"That is like a...
woman!" - Torvald
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"There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life...
...that depends on borrowing and debt." - Torvald
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"Very like your...
...father." - Torvald
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"I wish I had inherited many...
...of papa's qualities." - Nora
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"They will all be revealed...
...when the Christmas tree is lit." - Torvald
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"You shut yourself up every evening until long...
...after midnight." - Torvald
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"The last eight years have...
...been a happy time for me." - Nora
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"And much, much...
...older, Nora." - Christine
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"Poor Christine...
...you are a widow." - Nora
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"Not even a feeling...
...of loss or sorrow." - Christine
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"So you are quite alone. How dreadfully sad that must be...
...I have three lovely children." - Nora
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"Is it really true that you did not love...
...your husband?" - Nora
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"I only feel my life...
...unspeakably empty." - Christine
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"You know so little of the burdens and...
...troubles of life." - Christine
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"It was I who saved...
...Torvald's life." - Nora.
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"Is it foolish to save...
...your husband's life." - Nora
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"It'd be so painful and humiliating for him...
...to know that he owed anything to me." - Nora
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"Years from now, when...
...I'm no longer pretty." - Nora
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"It was almost like being...
...a man." - Nora
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"I can fill the house with pretty things...
...just the way Torvald likes." - Nora
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"A name I have often heard...
...in this house." - Dr Rank
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"I still want to go on being tortured...
...for as long as possible." - Dr Rank
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"There's a moral...
...cripple in with Helmer at this very moment." - Dr Rank
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"It's that attitude that's turning human society...
...into a hospital." - Dr Rank
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"Come, Mrs Linde. This is for...
...mothers only." - Torvald
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"I'll undress them myself, Anne-Marie...
...No, please let me; it's such fun." - Nora
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"How could you imagine that I would have any...
...influence over my husband?" - Nora
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"I shall fight for my little job at the bank...
...as I would fight for my life." - Krogstad
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"My sons are growing up; for their sake...
...I must try to regain what respectability I can." - Krogstad
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"This secret that is my...
...pride and my joy." - Nora
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"It is I who wrote...
...papa's name there." - Nora
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"The law does not concern itself...
...with motives." - Krogstad
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"Then the law...
...must be very stupid." - Nora
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"If I get thrown into the gutter for a second time...
...I shall take you with me." - Krogstad
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"A songbird must have a...
...clean beak to sing with." - Torvald
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"So Little Miss Independent's in trouble and...
...needs a man to rescue her." - Torvald
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"An atmosphere of lies contaminates and poisons...
...every corner of the home." - Torvald
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"Nearly all young criminals are the children of...
...mothers who are constitutional liars." - Torvald
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"The Christmas tree stands...
stripped and disheveled, it's candles burned to their sockets." - Stage directions
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"Oh, I wish I could tear...
...them into a million pieces!" - Nora
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"She's written to me...
...twice." - Anne-Marie
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"His father was a frightful creature...
...who kept mistresses and so on." - Nora
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"He said he'd often heard me name mentioned here...
...But later I noticed your husband had no idea who I was." -Christine
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"Nice - to give in...
...to your husband?" - Torvald
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"Your father was not a man of unassailable reputation...
...But I am." - Torvald
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"We - well, we're on Christian...
...name terms." - Torvald
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"You think I am...
...petty?" - Torvald
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"I am man enough to bear...
...the burden for us both." - Torvald
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"The final filthy...
...process has begun." - Dr Rank
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"All this to atone for...
...someone else's sin?" - Dr Rank
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"I suppose you can look a bit...
...higher if you want to." - Nora
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"He'd never hesitate for an instant...
...to lay down his life for me." - Nora
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"Nora - do you think...
...he is the only one?" - Dr Rank
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"Makes room for her...
...but remains seated." - Stage directions
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"I'll show him all the...
...respect he deserves." - Krogstad
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"Oh, you can't frighten me. A pampered...
...little pretty like you-" - Krogstad
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"A miracle...
...is about to happen." - Nora
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"I can't get anywhere without...
...your help." - Nora
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"Her hair works loose...
...and falls over her shoulders." - Stage directions
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"This is sheer...
...lunacy." - Torvald
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"I mean, she isn't...
...er - expecting?" - Dr Rank
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"Thirty-one hours...
...to live." - Nora
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"It's the old story, isn't it...
...a woman chucking a man because something better turns up?" - Krogstad
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"I thought it my duty to destroy...
...all the feelings you had for me." - Christine
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"Now I'm a shipwrecked man...
...clinging to a spar." - Krogstad
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"Your children need a mother...
And you and I need each other." - Christine
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"I know what despair can drive...
...a man like you to." - Christine
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"A woman who has sold herself once for the sake of others...
...doesn't make the same mistake again." - Christine
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"I won't let this chance of happiness...
...slip through my fingers." - Christine
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"As they say in novels...
...the beautiful apparition disappeared!" - Torvald
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"You ought to take up...
...embroidery." - Torvald
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"I hope you'll manage to get...
...home alright?" - Torvald
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"Soon I shall...
...sleep." - Nora
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"Aren't I your...
...husband?" - Torvald
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"Nice of you not to go by...
...without looking in." - Torvald
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"I thought I heard your voice...
...so I felt I had to say goodbye." - Dr Rank
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"The best possible finding...
...Certainty." - Dr Rank
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"Let me give you a...
...light." - Nora
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"Then it must have been...
...the children." - Nora
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"And now he's going to slink away...
...and hide like a wounded beast." - Torvald
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"His suffering and loneliness seemed to provide a kind of dark background...
...to the happy sunlight of our marriage." - Torvald
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"Often I wish some terrible danger might threaten you...
...so that I could offer my life and my blood, everything, for your sake." - Torvald
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"She who was my joy...
...and pride." - Torvald
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"All your father's recklessness...
...and instability he has handed on to you!" - Torvald
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"No religion, no morals...
...no sense of duty." - Torvald
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"Oh, don't be...
...melodramatic." - Torvald
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"But the children shall be taken...
...out of your hands." - Torvald
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"Nora, I am...
...saved!" - Torvald
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"He tears the I.O.U and both letters into pieces...
...throws them into the stove and watches them burn." - Stage directions
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"It means that she has become his property...
...in a double sense." - Torvald
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"Yes, Torvald...
...I've changed." - Nora
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"We have never exchanged a serious word...
...on a serious subject." - Nora
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"He used to tell me what he thought about everything...
...so that I never had any opinions but his." - Nora
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"But I haven't ever...
...been happy." - Nora
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"I must educate...
...myself." - Nora
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"Have you thought...
...what people will say?" - Torvald
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"Can you neglect your...
...most sacred duties?" - Torvald
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"First and foremost you are...
...a wife and mother." - Torvald
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"I believe that I am first and foremost...
...a human being." - Nora
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"I don't really know what...
...religion means." - Nora
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"Nora, you're ill. You're feverish...
...I almost believe you're out of your mind." - Torvald
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"I'm not such a fool as to suppose...
...that miracles occur everyday." - Nora
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"No man can be expected to sacrifice his honor...
...even for the person he loves." - Torvald
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"Millions of women...
...have done it." - Nora
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"I could tear myself...
...to pieces!" - Nora
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"The miracle...
of miracles-?" - Torvald
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"The street door is...
...slammed shut downstairs." - Stage directions
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
...comfortably and tastefully." - Stage directions
Back
"A room furnished...
Card 3
Front
...It is winter." - Stage directions
Back
Card 4
Front
...in." - Nora
Back
Card 5
Front
...twittering out there?" - Torvald
Back
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