Great Throughts Treasury
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Peer Gynt
Norwegian Play Based on the fairy tale, Per Gynt, Op. 23 is the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's 1867 play of the same name, written by the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg
"The world behind my brow, that makes me what I am and no one else."
"Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!"
"To think it, wish it, even want it — but do it! No, that I cannot understand."
"Really to sin you have to be serious about it."