The Ghost Sonata
August StrindbergQuotes
[...] 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? ...
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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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Exactly!
“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.”
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“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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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.”
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“[...] 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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