August Strindberg Quotes - Page 3

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• I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

  August Strindberg

  Becoming, Photographer, Talent

  August Strindberg (1968). “Inferno, Alone, and Other Writings: In New Translations”

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• It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

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  Marriage, Angel, Thinking

  "Plays".

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• It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.

  August Strindberg

  Eye, Voice, Hatred

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• I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

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  Dog, Courage, Fighting

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Confession of a Fool”, p.214, The Floating Press

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• The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

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  Husband, Eye, Jealous

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

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• What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

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  Writing, Men, Skins

  August Strindberg (1969). “The Cloister”

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• I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

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  Ideas, Theatre, Form

  August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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• Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.

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  Real, Filled Up, Sorrow

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

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  People, Common

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

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  Moving, August, Wife

  August Strindberg (1964). “Plays”

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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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  Book, Character, Past

  August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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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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  Children, Independent, Doe

  August Strindberg (2014). “Married”, p.229, The Floating Press

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