Quotes from August Strindberg

Não, eu prefiro o silêncio, no silêncio ouvem-se os pensamentos e vê-se o passado, o silêncio não pode esconder... o que as palavras escondem.

He really is the most arrogant person I've ever come across. 'I am, therefore God exists'. ALICE

Now you have fulfilled your function as an unfortunately necessary father and breadwinner, you are not needed any longer and you must go.

This house is full of women who all want to have their say about my child.

Here come the guests. Keep calm, now, and we'll go on playing our old roles.

He neither acquits nor condemns, but merely relates, and, just as a dream is more often painful than happy, so a tone of melancholy and pity for all mortal beings runs through this uncertain tale.

Qué es el amor? —preguntó Adèle mientras miraba la luna como si buscara la respuesta en el cielo. —Es la simpatía de las almas —susurró el abogado con una voz que parecía proceder del viento.

is this carnival, or ... reality?

If a flower you covet, straightway you are told it is another's.

My daughter became my enemy when she had to choose between me and you. And you, my wife, you have been my archenemy, because you never let up on me till I lay here lifeless. LAURA.

My child? A man has no children, it is only woman who has children, and therefore the future is hers when we die childless.

KURT. Then he does love you! ALICE. Probably. But that doesn't stop him from hating me. KURT

CAPTAIN. Yes, I'm crying, even though I am a man. But has not a man eyes? Has not a man hands, organs, senses, affections, passions? Does he not live by the same food, is he not hurt with the same weapons, is he not warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a woman is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? Why should a man not complain, a soldier weep?* Because it's unmanly! Why is it unmanly? LAURA

Sedan du sålunda fått ditt erkännande av utlänningen, så har du fått ditt namn här hemma naturligtvis och jag slipper gå längre och skämmas för dig.

Allt kan ske, allt är möjligt och sannolikt. Tid och rum existera icke; på en obetydlig verklighetsgrund spinner inbillningen ut och väver nya mönster: en blandning av minnen, upplevelser, fria påhitt, orimligheter och improvisationer.

I bought flowers this morning: needed some light but got darkness that grew blacker towards the evening.

If the child is not mine I have no control over her and don't want to have any, and that is precisely what you do want, isn't it? But perhaps you want even more—to have power over the child, but still have me to support you. LAURA.

LAWYER. Justice that destroys itself in seeking to be just!— — —Right, that so often fosters wrong!!! DAUGHTER

she seeks me like roses in my mouth.

Both life and nature are black.

Dreamt [. . .] of a grey hen who came rubbing against me, wanting to be stroked. She was afraid of me, thought I was dangerous, but I stroked her and then she flew up and settled on the roosting-bar or shelf in the hen-house.

she wants me to embrace her, but I do not want to abuse eros, or her.

Lawyer: And what people live on is a mystery to me. They marry with an income of two thousand crowns when they need four. They borrow, to be sure, they all borrow ... but who has to pay in the end? Tell me that! Daughter: He Who feeds the birds.

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