August Strindberg Quotes

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.
• It's terribly hard to be married ... harder than anything else. I think you have to be an angel.
• That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
• Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
• Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
• I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
• What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass
• 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.…
• 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…
• 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…
• No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
• 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…
• 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…
• When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!
• 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…
• 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…
• I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
• Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
• By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.
• I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

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