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.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.

  August Strindberg

  Travel, Memories, Car

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.104, Univ of California Press

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Past, Silence

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.286, Univ of California Press

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• By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.

  August Strindberg

  Levels, Impossible, Attempting

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• Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.

  August Strindberg

  Silence

  August Strindberg (2014). “Strindberg Plays: 1: The Father; Miss Julie; The Ghost Sonata”, p.179, A&C Black

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• I dream, therefore I exist.

  August Strindberg

  Dream, Survival

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Confession of a Fool”, p.99, The Floating Press

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• I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

  August Strindberg

  Savages, Needs, World

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• There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

  August Strindberg

  Eye, Vision, Poison

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.296, Univ of California Press

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Memories, Reality, Imagination

  August Strindberg (2014). “Strindberg Plays: 2: Dream Play; Dance of Death; The Stronger”, p.175, A&C Black

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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

  August Strindberg

  Order, Class, Economic Inequality

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• I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, Joy, Battle

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Family, Wisdom, Children

  1886 The Son of a Servant.

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• What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.

  August Strindberg

  People, Preparation, Next

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.243, Univ of California Press

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• Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!

  August Strindberg

  Life, Leaving, Life Is

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.242, Univ of California Press

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• The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

  August Strindberg

  Dream, World, Phantoms

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.

  August Strindberg

  Punishment, Religion, Doe

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• Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

  August Strindberg

  Nice, Interesting, Growing

  August Strindberg (1962). “Plays”

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• Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

  August Strindberg

  Beautiful, Evil, Ugly

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

  August Strindberg

  Loneliness, Married, Ifs

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• Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

  August Strindberg

  Blessing, Vision, Sometimes

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.147, Univ of California Press

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Friendship, Men, Views

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.122, The Floating Press

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• Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

  August Strindberg

  Police, Society, Wardens

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• There comes a moment... When imagination gives out and Reality leaps forth. It is frightful!

  August Strindberg

  Reality, Giving, Imagination

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• Necessity knows no rules.

  August Strindberg

  Knows

  August Strindberg (1996). “Miss Julie”, p.30, Ivan R. Dee

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Mad, Lions, Bees

  Johan August Strindberg, Michael Robinson (2008). “Miss Julie and Other Plays”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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