August Strindberg

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August Strindberg (22 January 1849 – 14 May 1912) was a Swedish playwright and artist.

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

• In that first prolific period of painting,my painting had a theraputic function.(Strindberg was also a talented amateur painter)

• When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

• I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people.

• What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass.

• When they say Christ descended into Hell, they mean that he descended to earth, this penitentiary, this madhouse and morgue of a world.

• Woman, being small and foolish and therefore evil, should be suppressed like barbarians and thieves. She is useful only as an ovary and womb, best of all as a cunt.

• By aiming for the impossible, you reach the highest level of the possible. (Or: To reach for the outmost possibility, you've got to aim for the impossible)

• See you in my next book, you bastard! (From a letter to a journalist who had criticized his work)

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• [1] The Town (painting by Strindberg.
• [2] Other examples of Strindberg's painting