“The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions — to destroy.”

—  Henrik Ibsen

Letter of 1883, quoted in The Drama of Ibsen and Strindberg (1962) by Frank Laurence Lucas, p. 34.

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Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828–1906

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