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> [“Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. But beyond that it is entirely up to you. You’ve got to do for yourself all the seeking and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/because-any-fool-knows-that-to-work-hard-at-something-you-want-to/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

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> [“In plain words, you’ve got to make up your mind to study whatever you undertake, and concentrate your mind on it, and really work at it. This isn’t wisdom. Any damned fool in the world knows it’s true, whether it’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/in-plain-words-you-ve-got-to-make-up-your-mind-to-study-whatever-you/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

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## More by Eugene O'Neill

> [Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/life-is-perhaps-best-regarded-as-a-bad-dream-between-two-awakenings/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/we-need-above-all-to-learn-again-to-believe-in-the-possibility-of/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/the-past-is-the-present-isn-t-it-it-s-the-future-too/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [“You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/you-can-t-be-too-careful-about-work-it-s-the-most-dangerous-habit/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/life-is-for-each-man-a-solitary-cell-whose-walls-are-mirrors/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [“LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid to live, am I?--and even more afraid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/larry-with-increasing-bitter-intensity-more-as-if-he-were-fighting/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/the-child-was-diseased-at-birth-stricken-with-a-hereditary-ill-that/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/drunken-with-what-with-wine-with-poetry-or-with-virtue-as-you-will/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [“Now I have to lie, especially to myself. But how can you understand, when I don't myself. I've never understood anything about it, except…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/now-i-have-to-lie-especially-to-myself-but-how-can-you-understand/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/we-are-such-things-as-rubbish-is-made-of-so-let-s-drink-up-and-forget/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/curiosity-killed-the-cat-but-satisfaction-brought-it-back/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/how-thick-the-fog-is-i-can-t-see-the-road-all-the-people-in-the-world/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/i-hate-doctors-they-ll-do-anything-to-keep-you-coming-to-them-they-ll/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/like-a-saint-s-vision-of-beatitude-like-the-veil-of-things-as-they/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

> [There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/there-is-no-present-or-future-only-the-past-happening-over-and-over/)

[Eugene O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eugene-o-neill/)

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