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"HEDVIG: No, the hens have got lots of other friends there, that they were chickens with; but it has comeright away from all its friends, poor thing. It is all so mysterious about the wild du
ck. It hasn't any friends - and no one knows where it came from either.
GREGERS: And then it has been down to the ocean's depths." (p. 166)
"GREGERS: And, besides, if I am to go on living, I must do something to cure my sick conscience.
WERLE: You will never cure it. Your conscience has been sickly from childhood. It is ah inheritance from your mother, Gregers, the only one thing she did leave you." (p.127)
"HJALMAR: It is done, I have passed through the most bitter moment in my life.
[...]
GREGERS: After such a momentous enlightenment - an enlightenment that is to be the starting point of a completely new existence - a real companionship founded on truth and purged of all falsehood." (p. 134)
"GREGERS: But now suppose you sacraficed the wild duck, of your own free will, for his sake." (p.146)
"BRIDE
I must be mad! I do not want
To share your bed or your food,
But every minute of the day
I long to be with you.
You pull me , and I go along,
And then you push me back.
And helplessly I follow you
Like straw blown on the wind.
I've left a good and honest man,
His family, His house,
In the middle of a wedding,
Still wearing my bridal crown!
But you are the one they will punish,
And I don't want that to be.
Leave me alone! Escape!
No one can help you now." (p. 91)

"BRIDE
Stop it! Stop it! Take your revenge on me! Here I am! See how soft my kneck is? it will be easier than cutting a dahlia from your garden. But, that, no! As honorable as a honorable new born child! And strong enough to prove it to you! Light the fire! We'll put our hands in it-you for your son; me for my body! You'll take yours out first." (p.102)