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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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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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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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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 find my joy in living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.
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Two times two — is two!, Yes! I shall prove it by means of analogy, the highest form of proof. Follow carefully. One times one is one, therefore two times two is two. What applies to one applies to the other.
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Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.
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What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.
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The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
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Then, is it reasonable to think that one can see, by looking in a microscope, what is going on in another planet?
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I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see into the past.
In silence you can't hide anything … as you can in words.
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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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Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!
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It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.
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Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.
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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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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
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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 loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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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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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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I'd love to see the whole of your sex swimming in a sea of blood. The way I feel I could drink out of your skull. I could eat your heart roasted whole! You think I'm weak! My father will come home - find his money stolen! He'll send for the sheriff - and I'll tell him everything. Then there'll be peace and quiet... forever.
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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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Born:
January 22, 1849
Died:
May 14, 1912
(aged 63)
Bio:
Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.
Known for:
Miss Julie (1888)
The Father
A Dream Play (1907)
The Dance of Death (1901)
The Ghost Sonata (1908)
Most used words:
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