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What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass.
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Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.
August Strindberg
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When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
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I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
August Strindberg -
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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Love between a man and woman is war.
August Strindberg -
It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.
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Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.
August Strindberg
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[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul.
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People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg -
Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
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It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.
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I do not care about my own appearance, but I would hope that people could see into my soul, and that is presented better in these photographs than in others. (On his self-portraits).
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The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
August Strindberg
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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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On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.
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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
August Strindberg -
By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.
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
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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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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.
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It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.
August Strindberg -
When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!
August Strindberg