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August Strindberg 10
Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter 1849–1912Related quotes
"A Painful Case"
Source: Dubliners (1914)
Context: One of his sentences, written two months after his last interview with Mrs. Sinico, read: Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
“Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior.”
As reported by Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will, Men Women and Rape, (1975) note 3, at 48. the original statement was attributed to Nietzsche; as quoted in War Crimes Against Women: Prosecution in International War Crimes Tribunals https://books.google.com/books?id=ThfzGvSvQ2UC&pg=PA7&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false, Kelly Dawn Askin, (1997), p.49.
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“The love of man and woman is the beginning of the love of God.”
Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)
Context: The love of man and woman is the beginning of the love of God. You can realise God within like many men have done. It's one of the rarest things on earth to realise God, but everybody seems to think that that's the end. Where I come from, realising God was the easy part of it. That God of love which is already here anyway - who wouldn't be able to realise it? The difficult part is to bring that God into this world where God or love is not, into that body listening to these words and this body speaking them. That's the task.
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”
Source: Poetry as Insurgent Art
Session 769, Page 61
The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression (1979)
Context: In larger terms, it is as natural for a man to love a man, and for a woman to love a woman, as it is to show love for the opposite sex. For that matter, it is more natural to be bisexual.