J. August Strindberg

(279 votes)   Antipathy, dissimilarity of views, hate, contempt, can accompany true love.

J. August Strindberg
1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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(246 votes)   I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

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(189 votes)   In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

J. August Strindberg
1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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(174 votes)   Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

J. August Strindberg
1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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(128 votes)   The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.

J. August Strindberg
1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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(122 votes)   Oh, I have loved him too much to feel no hate for him.

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(102 votes)   Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real ''horror vacuum.''

J. August Strindberg
1849-1912, Swedish Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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(31 votes)   Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

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(31 votes)   I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.

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

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

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(28 votes)   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.

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(27 votes)   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.

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(26 votes)   I dream, therefore I exist.

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

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