None of us can help the things life has done to us. Theyโre done before you realize it, and once theyโre done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what youโd like to be, and youโve lost your true self forever.
Eugene O'NeillObsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
Eugene O'NeillLike a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you seeโand seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!
Eugene O'Neill