August Strindberg Quotes
1849–1912 Sweden
Johan August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter.
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Also known as: Johan August Strindberg
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A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.
Colin Jarman (1993)
Every healthy man is a woman-hater—yet he cannot survive if he does not ally himself with his enemy and bring about strife. All deviates and effeminate perverts among men have an adoration for women!
The beginning and the end—for us men anyhow. In relationship to one another they are nothing.
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
A Madman's Diary (1895)
"To love" is an active verb, and "woman" is a passive noun. He loves—she is loved; he interrogates—she merely answers!
Nothing in themselves; but everything for us, through us! Our honour and our shame; our greatest joy, our deepest pain; our redemption and our fall; our wages and our punishment; our strength and our weakness.
Kierkegaard is not regarded as a philosopher, nor are Feuerbach and his pupil Nietzsche, but they are extraordinarily instructive. All who construct an empty system with facts are fools. Such is Bostrom, who tries to subtilise conceptions, analyse ideas, and classify and arrange God, man, and human life under heads.
Perhaps some sort of larva, or pupa, out of whose somnambulist life a man will be created. She is like a child, yet is not one; she is a sort of child, but is not like one. When the man pulls upward, she drags downward; when the man drags downward, she pulls upward!