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August Strindberg Quotes

August Strindberg quotes

Swedish Playwright, Writer January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912

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At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women August Strindberg
August Strindberg quote: "Love between a man and woman is war."
Love between a man and woman is war. August Strindberg
August Strindberg quote: "I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference..."
I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. August Strindberg
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
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
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
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. August Strindberg
The ball was held in a middle-class home. The girls were anemic - some of them; the others were red as raspberries. John liked the pale ones best, the ones with black or blue rings round their eyes. They looked so sad and suffering and pitiable, and they cast tender yearning glances at him, such yearning glances. August Strindberg
August Strindberg quote: "That is the thankless position of the father in the family -..."
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. August Strindberg
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. August Strindberg
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
He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for talking with them, no, no! Then he felt as though he were dealing with another species of human being, in some cases a higher one, in others a lower. He secretly admired the weak, pale, little girl and had picked her to be his wife. That was still the only way he could think of a woman - as a wife. He danced in a very chaste and proper manner, but he heard awful stories about his pals, stories he... August Strindberg
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
August Strindberg quote: "Those who won't accept evil never get anything good."
Those who won't accept evil never get anything good. August Strindberg
August Strindberg quote: "I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack..."
I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. August Strindberg

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