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August Strindberg Quote: “The mother was your friend, you see, but the woman was your enemy, and love between the sexes is strife. Do not think that I gave myself; I did not give, but I took – what I wanted.”

51. “The mother was your friend, you see, but the woman was your enemy, and love between the sexes is strife. Do not think that I gave myself; I did not give, but I took – what I wanted.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and cease to be men?”

52. “When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and cease to be men?”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.”

53. “Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “Those who won’t accept evil never get anything good.”

54. “Those who won’t accept evil never get anything good.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “One gets more and more humble the longer one lives, and in the shadow of death many things look different.”

55. “One gets more and more humble the longer one lives, and in the shadow of death many things look different.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the many little men hold the power, and the great only serve the little men. I’ve never met such proud people as the humble; I’ve never met an uneducated man who didn’t believe himself in a position to criticise learning and to do without it.”

56. “For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the many little men hold the power, and the great only serve the little men. I’ve never met such proud people as the humble; I’ve never met an uneducated man who didn’t believe himself in a position to criticise learning and to do without it.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “How sweet is life after all, when the mist of a mild intoxication casts its veil over the miseries of existence.”

57. “How sweet is life after all, when the mist of a mild intoxication casts its veil over the miseries of existence.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.”

58. “I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “When aristocrats pretend they’re common people – they get common!”

59. “When aristocrats pretend they’re common people – they get common!”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “Do you suppose that he would have spoken if he had been alive? And do you suppose that if any of the dead husbands came back they would be believed?”

60. “Do you suppose that he would have spoken if he had been alive? And do you suppose that if any of the dead husbands came back they would be believed?”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “This house is full of women who all want to have their say about my child.”

61. “This house is full of women who all want to have their say about my child.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “My daughter became my enemy when she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you have been my archenemy, because you never let up on me till I lay here lifeless. LAURA.”

62. “My daughter became my enemy when she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you have been my archenemy, because you never let up on me till I lay here lifeless. LAURA.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another’s.”

63. “If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another’s.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “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.”

64. “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

August Strindberg Quote: “It appears from these letters that for some time past you have been arraying my old friends against me by spreading reports about my mental condition.”

65. “It appears from these letters that for some time past you have been arraying my old friends against me by spreading reports about my mental condition.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “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.”

66. “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.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “Ah, what is then this earthly life, But grief, affliction and great strife? E’en when fairest it has seemed, Nought but pain it can be deemed.”

67. “Ah, what is then this earthly life, But grief, affliction and great strife? E’en when fairest it has seemed, Nought but pain it can be deemed.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “Must I be humbled in order to be lifted up, made low in order to be raised high?”

68. “Must I be humbled in order to be lifted up, made low in order to be raised high?”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “But unfortunately, I am a man, and there is nothing for me to do but, like a Roman, fold my arms across my breast and hold my breath till I die. DOCTOR.”

69. “But unfortunately, I am a man, and there is nothing for me to do but, like a Roman, fold my arms across my breast and hold my breath till I die. DOCTOR.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “On a flimsy framework of reality, imagination spins, weaving new patterns.”

70. “On a flimsy framework of reality, imagination spins, weaving new patterns.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “Every trace of illusion was gone – it was nothing but smears of paint, and I quaked at the thought of having believed, and having made others believe, that a painted canvas could be anything but a painted canvas. The veil had fallen from my eyes, and it was just as impossible for me to paint any more as it was to become a child again.”

71. “Every trace of illusion was gone – it was nothing but smears of paint, and I quaked at the thought of having believed, and having made others believe, that a painted canvas could be anything but a painted canvas. The veil had fallen from my eyes, and it was just as impossible for me to paint any more as it was to become a child again.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “Poor souls. I feel so sorry for them.”

72. “Poor souls. I feel so sorry for them.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “Here come the guests. Keep calm, now, and we’ll go on playing our old roles.”

73. “Here come the guests. Keep calm, now, and we’ll go on playing our old roles.”

— August Strindberg

August Strindberg Quote: “Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.”

74. “Any programming language is at its best before it is implemented and used. Anything is possible, anything can happen. On a flimsy ground of reality, imagination spins marvelous patterns.”

— August Strindberg

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