The Ghost Sonata

August Strindberg

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You see, when a house gets old, it grows moldy, and when people are together too long and torment each other too long, they crack.”
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“We are wretched creature, us human beings. We know that. We have erred, we have sinned- we like all the rest. We are not what we seem. For at the core we are better than ourselves, since we detest our sins.”
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[...] Where is virginity- where is beauty to be found? In nature, and in my own mind, when it is dressed up in its Sunday best. Where do honor and faith exist? In fairy-tales and children’s fantasies. Where is anything that fulfills its promise? In my imagination. Do you see? ...
“I don’t care for publicity; that’s more than enough. If you get any praise, there’s always disapproval too. First they laud you, then denounce you. Slandering people has become one of the fine arts these days... Besides, I’m not interested in any reward.”
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“Sometimes I’m seized by a raging desire to say everything I think. But I know the world would collapse completely if people were completely candid.”
“My whole life’s like a book of fairy tales, young man. And although the stories are different, they are held together by one thread; the main theme constantly recurs- like clockwork.”
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“In the face of what’s hopeless, there can only be despair.”
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I don't care for publicity; that's more than enough. If you get any praise, there's always disapproval too.
“Don’t leave me! I am tired, I’m lonely, but I haven’t always been like this. I have an enormously long life behind me, infinitely long. I have made people unhappy and people have made me unhappy but before I die I want to make you happy. Our destinies are tangled together through your father and other things.”
“[...] I am a cripple. Some say it is my own fault; others blame my parents or my genes. I prefer to blame existence. Life is not for its hazards. In evading one, you’ll fall recklessly into another.”
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