J. August Strindberg

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    I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
    —J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)

    Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
    Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul?
    Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
    —J. August Strindberg (1849–1912)