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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
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August Strindberg
Age: 63 †
Born: 1849
Born: January 22
Died: 1912
Died: May 14
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