The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
Henrik IbsenBefore I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
Henrik IbsenBut I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that โwalksโ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.
Henrik Ibsen