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Quote by Henrik Ibsen
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine.

It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn. – Henrik Ibsen

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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it… its just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse. – Henrik Ibsen

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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. – Henrik Ibsen

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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are societys tools, neither more nor less. – Henrik Ibsen

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