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Quote by August Strindberg

“When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!”

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Swedish playwright, novelist, and poet, known for his profound psychological portrayals and realistic style. Strindberg's works cover a wide range of themes, including family, society, and the moral dilemmas of individuals. more

“But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world maintains that no rational man or woman would have chosen this way of life - therefore, it is madness. Alone I confront them and tell them that nothing could be saner or truer! What do people really know about life? We fall in line, follow the pattern established by our mentors. Everything is based on assumptions; even time, space, motion, matter are nothing but supposition. The world has no new knowledge to impart; it merely accepts what is there.”

People Knows Men World Way Looks Matter Fall Lines Space Accepting Break Madness Patterns Chosen Rational Assumption Look Up Mentor Shocked Impart Supposition New Knowledge

Author:Knut Hamsun

“I was conscious all the time that I was following mad whims without being able to do anything about it … . Despite my alienation from myself at that moment, and even though I was nothing but a battleground for invisible forces, I was aware of every detail of what was going on around me.”

Moments Able Force Conscious Mad Details Following Invisible Despite That Moment Alienation Whim Battleground

Book:Hunger: A Novel

Source: Hunger: A Novel

“Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work”

Has Beens Enough Literature Names Goes On Debt Acknowledge Generous Merit Ads Quoting

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you”

Men Mind States House Understanding Solitude Miles State Of Mind Incapable Carefree

Author:Knut Hamsun

“Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!”

Knows Opportunity Heaven Doubt Very Good Plenty No Doubt Carried Away

Book:Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

Source: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse

“The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.”

Men Art Dies Materials Intellectual Art Is Climate Productions Determined Works Of Art

Author:Hippolyte Taine

“History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.”

Problem History Psychology Mechanic

Author:Hippolyte Taine

“Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.”

Four Fool Lovers Variety Ambitious Observers

Author:Hippolyte Taine

“Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.”

War Lines Fronts Rounds Photographer Corners Locals Famine Supermarkets Crusades

Author:Martin Parr

“If you photograph for a long time, you get to understand such things as body language. I often do not look at people I photograph, especially afterwards. Also when I want a photo, I become somewhat fearless, and this helps a lot. There will always be someone who objects to being photographed, and when this happens you move on.”

People Ifs Want Looks Long Helping Body Happens Moving Language Understanding Objects Photography Long Time Photograph Fearless Moving On Objections Body Language Photojournalists

Author:Martin Parr

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