August Strindberg Quotes
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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits)
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What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
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I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
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People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
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He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.
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It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.
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Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
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The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
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People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
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When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!
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Love between a man and woman is war.
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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.
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I dream, therefore I exist.
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What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass
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Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.
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Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.
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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
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I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past. In silence you can’t hide anything … as you can in words.
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Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.
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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
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Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
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By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.
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[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul
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if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married
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Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
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Some people have accused my tragedy of being too sad, as though one desired a merry tragedy. People clamor for Enjoyment as though Enjoyment consisted in being foolish. I find enjoyment in the powerful and terrible struggles of life; and the capability of experiencing something, of learning something, gives me pleasure.
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