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Quotation from Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder and The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen
“If you take away the average man’s life-lie you take away his happiness at the same time”
Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder and The Wild Duck, The Wild Duck, Act V, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling
Relling defends his method of keeping Hjalmar's self-flattering illusions alive.
Citation: "If you take away the average man’s life-lie you take away his happiness at the same time" — Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder and The Wild Duck, The Wild Duck, Act V, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling. (id ibsen-hedda-gabler-master-builder-wild-duck-q6)
