“ People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. 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. August Strindberg
“ That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. August Strindberg
“ Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy. August Strindberg
“ I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. August Strindberg
“ I see the playwright as a lay preacher peddling the ideas of his time in popular form. August Strindberg
“ 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. August Strindberg
“ I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves. August Strindberg
“ At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the g… August Strindberg
“ He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for talking with them, no, no! Then he felt as though he were dealing with another species of human being,… August Strindberg
“ You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father August Strindberg
“ Yes, I am crying although I am a man. But has not a man eyes! Has not a man hands, limbs,senses, thoughts, passions? Is he not fed with the wine food, hurt by the same weapons, warmed and cooled by th… August Strindberg
“ Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. August Strindberg
