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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!

— August Strindberg

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A playwright is a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form.

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The beginning and the end—for us men anyhow. In relationship to one another they are nothing.

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