“One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born.”

“What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?”

“I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.”

“One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.”

“I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.”

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

“You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.”