Always do that, wild ducks do. They shoot to the bottom as
deep as they can get, sir and bite themselves fast in
the tangle and seaweed and all the devil's own mess that
grows down there. And they never come up again.
The Wild Duck
Ekdal, Act 2. |
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and
unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything
back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so
put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
The Wild Duck
Hjalmar, Act 4. |
Don't use that foreign word, ideals. We have that excellent
native word, lies.
The Wild Duck
Relling, Act 5. |
Take the life lie away from the average man and straight away
you take away his happiness.
The Wild Duck
Relling, Act 5. |
Oh, life would be quite tolerable, after all, if only we could
get rid of the confounded duns that keep on pestering us, in
our poverty, with the claim of the ideal.
The Wild Duck
Relling, Act 5. |
RELLING: May I inquire - what is your destiny?
GREGERS: To be the thirteenth at table.
The Wild Duck
Act 5.
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