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Ekdahlska huset - Alexander Ekdahl: [to his dead father] Can't you go to Heaven and ask God to kill the bishop?
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Biskopsgården - Bishop Edvard Vergerus: You have a weakness in your character. You can't distinguish lies from truth. So far they are just child's lies, however dreadful they may be. But soon you will be a grown man, Alexander, and life punishes liars ruthlessly and indiscriminately. The punishment is to teach you a love of truth.
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