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title: "2 Long day Quotes By Eugene O'Neill"
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> [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/)

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> [Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eugene-o-neill/everything-looked-and-sounded-unreal-nothing-was-what-it-is-that-s/)

[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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