"Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak."

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Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.158, Univ of California Press

August Strindberg

#Beautiful Quotes #Evil Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!”
“My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the simple imitation of sounds and gestures, Quotation is the most natural and most frequent habitude of human nature. For, Quotation must not be confined to passages adduced out of authors. He who cites the opinion, or remark, or saying of another, whether it has been written or spoken, is certainly one who quotes; and this we shall find to be universally practiced.”
“I don't like people who drain my time and energy. If you've seen the Harry Potter films, we use the term 'dementors' - people who can draw the life out of you in terms of your energy. So we eradicate the 'dementors', encourage the positive people, and that spreads around to create the team spirit we have here”
“You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.”
“And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.”
“I go and see music all the time.”
“The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.”
“One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”

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