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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!

— August Strindberg

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

Colin Jarman (1993)

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.

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