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[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul
August Strindberg
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August Strindberg
Age: 63 †
Born: 1849
Born: January 22
Died: 1912
Died: May 14
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What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass
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The further from one another, the nearer one can be.
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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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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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Silence hides nothing. Words conceal.
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Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
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On the much revered family of North American mythology - and a metaphor for the Ruling Alliance: Sacred family! .... The supposed home of all the virtues, where innocent children are tortured into their first falsehoods, where wills are broken by parental tyranny, and self-respect smothered by crowded, jostling egos.
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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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