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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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