Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Johan August Strindberg

Swedish Playwright, Novelist, Short-Story Writer

"I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something."

"I dream, therefore I exist."

"Because in the midst of happiness there is always a seed of unhappiness; it consumes itself like fire--it can't burn forever, sooner or later it must die; and this presentiment of the end destroys my happiness when it is at is height."

"When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!"