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I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

I've thought of becoming a photographer! To save my talent as a writer.

August Strindberg
Becoming, Photographer, Talent
August Strindberg (1968). “Inferno, Alone, and Other Writings: In New Translations”

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.

August Strindberg
Marriage, Angel, Thinking
"Plays".

It's wonderful how, the moment you talk about God and love, your voice becomes hard, and your eyes fill with hatred. No, Margret, you certainly haven't the true faith.

August Strindberg
Eye, Voice, Hatred

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

August Strindberg
Dog, Courage, Fighting
August Strindberg (2014). “The Confession of a Fool”, p.214, The Floating Press

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.

August Strindberg
Husband, Eye, Jealous
August Strindberg (1967). “A Madman's Defense”, Peter Smith Pub Incorporated

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
Writing, Men, Skins
August Strindberg (1969). “The Cloister”

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

August Strindberg
Ideas, Theatre, Form
August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

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.

August Strindberg
Real, Filled Up, Sorrow
August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.94, The Floating Press

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

August Strindberg
People, Common
August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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.

August Strindberg
Moving, August, Wife
August Strindberg (1964). “Plays”

[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
Book, Character, Past
August Strindberg “Twelve Major Plays”, AldineTransaction

He saw the cause of his unhappiness in the family--the family as a social institution, which does not permit the child to become an independent individual at the proper time.

August Strindberg
Children, Independent, Doe
August Strindberg (2014). “Married”, p.229, The Floating Press

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