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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
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August Strindberg
Age: 63 †
Born: 1849
Born: January 22
Died: 1912
Died: May 14
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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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I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
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I dream, therefore I exist.
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When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!
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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.
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In the old days, one married a wife now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
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It's risky to take anything on good faith where a woman is concerned.
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Some people seem to be born to suffer.
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Religion must be a punishment, because nobody gets religion who does not have a bad conscience.
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No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
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A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.
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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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When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!
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Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
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Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.
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Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height.
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