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- Conclusion: Life isn't tragic.…Life is ridiculous.…And that's what I can't bear.
- Do you know what happens in novels? All those who kill themselves—through the head—not in the stomach.…How ridiculous—how baroque—…
I can't bear.
Notes for Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Evert Sprinchorn, from Playwrights on Playwriting, Toby Cole, ed. Hill and Wang, © Toby Cole 1960, 1988. Reprinted by permission of Toby Cole.
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