Eugene Gladstone O`Neill citáty

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„O kolik ostřejší než hadí zub je nevděčnost vlastního dítěte.“

„Být šťastni - nejjistější prostředek přiblížit se k dobru.“

„Tak dlouho jsem bojoval s malými věcmi, až jsem se stal sám malým.“

„Chci být umělec nebo nechci být nic.“

“If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself - ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity - before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.”

“You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.”

“Supposing I was to tell you that it's just Beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell of the East which lures me in the books I've read, the need of the freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on — in quest of the secret which is hidden over there, beyond the horizon?”

“It's queer they'd be allowin' the sick ones to read books when I'll bet it's the same lazy readin' in the house bought the half of them down with the consumption itself.”

“Irish as a Paddy's pig.”