Best Quotes by August Strindberg (Top 10)
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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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There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
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I dream, therefore I exist.
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if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married
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Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new patterns; a mixture of memories, experiences, free fancies, incongruities and improvisations.
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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
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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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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 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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Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
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More August Strindberg Quotes
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I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
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Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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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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That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
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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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I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to
bite people themselves.
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