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Nora’s most beautiful declaration and act of love project/panopticon-diaries

I love Nora. She is beautiful, and perfectly drawn by Ibsen.

Her need to be accepted. Her fear of presenting herself as she really is.

A woman who says one thing and means something quite different. Who wants to be friends with, and liked by, everyone. Who exclaims, “Don’t be angry with me!” …

—p.208 Changing by Liv Ullmann
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a bodyguard sits in my living room

I am having success and everything assumes a proportion unrelated to me.

A bodyguard sits in my living room, and shows his revolver to anyone who asks.

The theatre is packed every night. I try to play Nora as if Liv weren’t involved in so many other things.

—p.207 by Liv Ullmann
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we can give up our profession

I hope that two people can grow together, side by side, and bring joy to each other. Without one having to be crushed so that the other may stay strong.

Perhaps maturing is also to let others be.

To allow myself to be what I am.

“No one will sacrifice his honor for love,” says Helmer.

A…

—p.206 by Liv Ullmann
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I have lived only to be your plaything project/panopticon-diaries

I realize I was brought up to be the person others wanted me to be, so that they would like me and not be bothered by my presence.

That person was not me.

When I began to be me, I felt that I had more to give.

Life was richer.

I am trying to eliminate all the bad conscience caused by th…

—p.200 by Liv Ullmann
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I must find my own way advice/living for/pq

Nora stands in the door and says: “I don’t know what will become of me. I don’t know where I am going. I only know that I can no longer bother about what others say. I must find my own way.”

Is this not where life’s possibilities lie? Not necessarily to arrive, but always to be on the way, in mo…

—p.199 by Liv Ullmann