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PASTOR. Violence aside now, admit that he suffers from fixed ideas. DOCTOR. I think your ideas are even more fixed, pastor! PASTOR — August Strindberg

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass — August Strindberg

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police. — August Strindberg

I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. — August Strindberg

I dream, therefore I exist. — August Strindberg

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father — August Strindberg

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

but I so often forget what I know! QUARANTINE — August Strindberg

You are impossible. You are only a realist, and therefore nothing happens to you. — August Strindberg

It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned. — August Strindberg

Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is! — August Strindberg

Autumn is my spring! — August Strindberg

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good. — August Strindberg

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting. — August Strindberg

- He really is the most arrogant person I've ever come across. 'I am, therefore God exists'. ALICE — August Strindberg

I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. — August Strindberg

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

Love between a man and woman is war. — August Strindberg

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

Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing. — August Strindberg

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

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. — August Strindberg

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

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

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love. — August Strindberg

When people drink, they talk, and talk is dangerous! — August Strindberg

I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. — August Strindberg

LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just! - - - Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER — August Strindberg

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes. — August Strindberg

Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him. — August Strindberg

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

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot! — August Strindberg

I so despise people who keep dogs, they are cowards that havent got the curridge to bite themselfs — August Strindberg

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

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

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'. — Olivia D'Abo

If you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married — August Strindberg

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds! — August Strindberg

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

Some people seem to be born to suffer. — August Strindberg

When aristocrats pretend they're common people
they get common! — August Strindberg

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. — August Strindberg

As soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes. — August Strindberg

Every moment of enjoyment
Brings to some one else a sorrow,
But your sorrow gladdens no one,
For from sorrow naught but sorrow springs. — August Strindberg

Speaking at last becomes a vice, like
drinking. And why speak, if words do not cloak thoughts ? — August Strindberg

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

By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible. — August Strindberg

LAURA. Yes! It's strange, but I've never been able to look at a man without feeling I'm his superior. CAPTAIN — August Strindberg

The further from one another, the nearer one can be. — August Strindberg

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. — August Strindberg

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. — August Strindberg