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J August Strindberg: Happiness consumes itself...

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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.

Source: The Husband, in A Dream Play.
-- J August Strindberg, (Jan 22 1849-1912), Swedish playwright, novelist, short-story writer; He combined psychology and Naturalism in a new kind of European drama that evolved into Expressionist drama, e.g. The Father, 1887.


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