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.

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Before 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.

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.