To me, the tragic alone has that significant beauty which is truth. It is the meaning of life—and the hope. The noblest is eternally the most tragic. The people who succeed and do not push on to a greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers. Their stopping at success is the proof of their compromising insignificance. How petty their dreams must have been!—Eugene O'Neill, quoted in Alfred & Barbara Gelb, O'Neill (1962)
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Friday, June 10, 2011
'push on to a greater failure'
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