Jean Baudrillard
Philosopher, Sociologist
"History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history."
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Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now."
Henry Miller
Novelist, Essayist
"He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals"
Julian Barnes
Author
"Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago."
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"So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people."
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"Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce."
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"O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce."
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"To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce."
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"Parliament is the longest running farce in the West End."
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"The north remembers, Lord Davos. The north remembers, and the mummer’s farce is almost done. My son is home."
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"For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce."
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"Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued; while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly."
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"The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life."
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"Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day."
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"Party politics is now a real farce."
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