People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

A series of psychotic attacks between 1894 to 1896 (referred to as his "Inferno crisis") led to his hospitalisation and return to Sweden. From his earliest work Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action language and visual composition so innovative that many were to become technically possible to stage only with the advent of film. During the 1890s he spent significant time abroad engaged in scientific experiments and studies of the occult.