Author: August Strindberg

Quotes

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.

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

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.

- August Strindberg

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

- August Strindberg

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

- August Strindberg

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

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

- August Strindberg

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

- August Strindberg

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

- August Strindberg

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