I will always love you, mother; but I cannot go on living for you alone. This is no life for me.
Borkman.
Then come and join with me, after all! For life, life means work, Erhart. Come, we two will go forth into life and work together!
Erhart.
[Passionately.] Yes, but I don’t want to work now! For I am young! That’s what I never realised before; but now the knowledge is tingling through every vein in my body. I will not work! I will only live, live, live!
Mrs. Borkman.
[With a cry of divination.] Erhart, what will you live for?
Erhart.
[With sparkling eyes.] For happiness, mother!
Mrs. Borkman.