KRISTINA: Suffering does that-- happiness only makes everything commonplace.
ELIS: Perhaps it might be-- love. Don't you think those two young people--
KRISTINA: Sh! Sh! Sh! If you touch a butterfly's wings, it'll fly away.
ELEONORA: Benjamin! We can go to the country-- in two month's time. Oh, if only the time would pass quickly! [She tears the pages off the calendar, and scatters them in the shaft of sunlight that streams into the room.] See how the days fly.... April... May... June... And-- look, the sun shines on all of them! Now you must thank God for helping us to get to the country.
BENJAMIN [shyly]: Can't I say it to myself?
ELEONORA: Yes, you can say it to yourself, for the clouds have gone now, so it will be heard in Heaven.
from
EASTER
A PLAY IN THREE ACTS
(1901)
by August Strindberg
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