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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.


August Strindberg

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AUGUST WILSON Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
AUGUST KROGH During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of C...
AUGUST KEKULé You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and fra...
J.M. AUGUST Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sur...
AUGUST WILSON Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth.
AUGUST KEKULé I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch ...
AUGUST WILSON Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.
AUGUST WILSON The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced b...
AUGUST KROGH Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
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AUGUST WILSON In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome...
AUGUST WILSON The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
BILLE AUGUST Doesn't matter how near; Doesn't matter how far; One thing is clear; I love you wherever you are
AUGUST LINDBERG I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade...
AUGUST WILSON My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your p...
AUGUST WILSON Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
AUGUST WILSON The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small num...
AUGUST KROGH Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitu...
AUGUST WILSON I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an...
BILLE AUGUST The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I me...
BILLE AUGUST All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one ha...
AUGUST WILSON All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
AUGUST WILSON The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a numb...
AUGUST KROGH In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practi...
AUGUST KROGH The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the a...
AUGUST KROGH In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of...
AUGUST KROGH In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combin...
AUGUST KROGH Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the syst...
AUGUST KROGH