E. M. Forster
Novelist, Essayist
"Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value."
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Pathos
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Julian Green
Author, Playwright
"What is real is beyond all reach."
Joseph Henry
Scientist
"Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life."
Nigel Kennedy
Violinist
"You can't learn pathos or profundity."
Jorge Luis Borges
Writer, Poet
"How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?"
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"In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos."
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"There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation."
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"I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos in it and I'm intrigued by her."
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