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 StrindbergI, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
August StrindbergIt is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.
August StrindbergGod preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
August Strindberg