"It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth."

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Eugene O'Neill

#Men Quotes #Events Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.”
“There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.”
“What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?”
“The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the”
“Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.”
“Your dreams were the one place you could be physically safe.”
“Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.”

Source : Paul Reiser (2011). “Couplehood”, p.186, Bantam
“The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich.”

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