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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
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August Strindberg
Age: 63 †
Born: 1849
Born: January 22
Died: 1912
Died: May 14
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Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.
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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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God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
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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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It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.
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