August Strindberg Quotes

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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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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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  Punishment, Religion, Doe

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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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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 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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• 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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• Some people seem to be born to suffer.

  August Strindberg

  People, Suffering, Born

  August Strindberg (2005). “Easter”

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

  August Strindberg

  Loneliness, Married, Ifs

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• When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

  August Strindberg

  Succeed, Revolution

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

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  Police, Society, Wardens

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• Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

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  Blessing, Vision, Sometimes

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

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

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  People, Preparation, Next

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

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• The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.

  August Strindberg

  Fall, Mind, Pieces

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.29, Univ of California Press

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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

  Love, Hate, Hatred

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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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• 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.

  August Strindberg

  Clothes, Soul, Buttons

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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.

  August Strindberg

  Children, Home, Self

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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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