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Hialmar.
"Bad ways" do you call them? Little do you know what a man goes through when he is in grief and despair -- especially a man of my fiery temperament.
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Hialmar.

And I, too, thought my home such a pleasant one. That was a delusion. Where shall I now find the elasticity of spirit to bring my invention into the world of reality? Perhaps it will die with me; and then it will be your past, Gina, that will have killed it.

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Hialmar.

I ask you, what becomes of the breadwinner's dream? When I used to lie in there on the sofa and brood over my invention, I had a clear enough presentiment that it would sap my vitality to the last drop. I felt even then that the day when I held the patent in my hand -- that day -- would bring my -- release. And then it was my dream that you should live on after me, the dead inventor's well-to-do widow.

Irony - The audience knows Hjalmar to be the one who eats the bread literally.
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Hialmar.

Oh, the whole dream has vanished. It is all over now. All over!

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Hialmar.

In certain cases, it is impossible to disregard the claim of the ideal. Yet, as the breadwinner of a family, I cannot but writhe and groan under it. I can tell you it is no joke for a man without capital to attempt the repayment of a long-standing obligation, over which, so to speak, the dust of oblivion had gathered. But it cannot be helped: the Man in me demands his rights.

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Hialmar.

And yet, after all, I cannot but recognise the guiding finger of fate. He is going blind.

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[Silence. HEDVIG, discouraged, looks first at one and then at the other, trying to divine their frame of mind.

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Hialmar.

What is all this hocus-pocus that I am to be in the dark about!

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Hialmar.

I don't want to attain it. Never, never! My hat! (Takes his hat.) My home has fallen in ruins about me. [ (Bursts into tears.)]
Gregers, I have no child!

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Hedvig.

In the morning it's light, you know, and there's nothing in particular to be afraid of.

What we can't see is the most terrifying

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