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

— Eugene O'Neill Days Without End (1933)

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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)

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.

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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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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