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There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Ghost Sonata
Necessity knows no rules.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, Miss Julie
What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, A Dream Play
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.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Father
Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Son of a Servant
Some people seem to be born to suffer.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, Easter
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, A Dream Play
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, Miss Julie
When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous!
AUGUST STRINDBERG, Miss Julie
In silence you can't hide anything ... as you can in words.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Ghost Sonata
When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!
AUGUST STRINDBERG, Miss Julie
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, A Dream Play
Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, quoted in Otto Heller's Prophets of Dissent
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Dance of Death
Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
AUGUST STRINDBERG, A Dream Play
Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Dance of Death
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 Son of a Servant
Love between a man and woman is war.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Father
It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, A Dream Play
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, quoted in Otto Heller's Prophets of Dissent
When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Ghost Sonata
Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Dance of Death
The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Father
I dream, therefore I exist.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, A Madman's Defense
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