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Supposing I was to tell you that it's just Beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell of the East which lures me in the books I've read, the need of the freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on — in quest of the secret which is hidden over there, beyond the horizon?

— Eugene O'Neill Beyond the Horizon (1918)

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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)

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

Lazarus Laughed (1927)

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

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