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But I suppose life has made him like that, and he can't help it. None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever.

— Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)

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

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