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Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

— Eugene O'Neill Lazarus Laughed (1927)

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I listen to people talking about this universal breakdown we are in and I marvel at their stupid cowardice.

Days Without End (1933)

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate — and remain forever scatheless.

Days Without End (1933)

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!

The Great God Brown (1926)

There is no present or future — only the past happening over and over again — now.

A Moon for the Misbegotten (1952)

They have lost the ideal of the Land of the Free. Freedom demands initiative, courage, the need to decide what life must mean to oneself. To them, that is terror.

Days Without End (1933)

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