“Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?”

—  Eugene O'Neill

Source: The Great God Brown and Other Plays

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American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature 1888–1953

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