“I've the most extraordinary longing to say 'Bloody Hell!”

—  Henrik Ibsen

Nora Helmer, Act I
A Doll's House (1879)

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Jeg har en sånn umåtelig lyst til å si: død og pine.

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Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828–1906

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