August Strindberg Quotes - Page 2

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• I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

  August Strindberg

  Love, Hate, Hatred

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• Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

  August Strindberg

  Love, Hate, Too Much

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• Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, August, Flames

  August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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• Some people seem to be born to suffer.

  August Strindberg

  People, Suffering, Born

  August Strindberg (2005). “Easter”

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• There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

  August Strindberg

  Reality, Giving, Imagination

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Mad, Lions, Bees

  Johan August Strindberg, Michael Robinson (2008). “Miss Julie and Other Plays”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

  August Strindberg

  Fall, Mind, Pieces

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.29, Univ of California Press

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Book, Writing, Heart

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• When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

  August Strindberg

  Succeed, Revolution

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• When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

  August Strindberg

  Speaks Out, Long, People

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• Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

  August Strindberg

  Evil, Accepting

  August Strindberg (2010). “The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy”, p.376, The Floating Press

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• When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.

  August Strindberg

  Clothes, Soul, Buttons

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Character, Simple, Men

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.181, The Floating Press

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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.

  August Strindberg

  People, Joy, Hard Life

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• It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.

  August Strindberg

  Good Faith, Concerned

  August Strindberg (2003). “The Father”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

  August Strindberg

  Funny, Boyfriend, Fathers Day

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

  August Strindberg

  Failure, Mean, Progress

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• Love between a man and woman is war.

  August Strindberg

  War, Men, Men And Women

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.48, Univ of California Press

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• When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!

  August Strindberg

  People, Drink, Dangerous

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

  August Strindberg

  Love, Heartbreak, Hatred

  August Strindberg (1967). “A Madman's Defense”, Peter Smith Pub Incorporated

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• On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance:
  Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.

  August Strindberg

  Children, Home, Self

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• Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.

  August Strindberg

  Reality, Imagination, Patterns

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Powerful, Struggle, People

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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)

  August Strindberg

  Self, People, Soul

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• Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, Fire, Forever

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