Monologue

Gustav Monologue from The Creditor

From The Creditor by August Strindberg

male · philosophical · 1:15 min

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I thought as much, and you'll never get away from it. There are discords in life, you know, which never get resolved, so you must stuff your ears with wax, and work. Work, get older, and heap up over the coffin a mass of new impressions, and then the corpse will rest in peace. No, really? Perhaps there is a distant relationship between us: all men and women are related of course. Anyway, there's no getting away from the strangeness of it, and it will be interesting for me to make the acquaintance of your wife, so as to observe this remarkable characteristic. Quite. But look here now. That woman has never loved you. Pray excuse me, woman's love consists simply in this—in taking in, in receiving. She does not love the man from whom she takes nothing: she has never loved you.

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30s · sadness · love · identity · isolation · betrayal

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