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

— Eugene O'Neill The Great God Brown (1926)

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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)

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.

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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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

Basil of Caesarea

Once you accept the existence of God — however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him — then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Morris West The Clowns of God (1981)

God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

Rabindranath Tagore Fireflies (1928)

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