"Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery."
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"I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery."
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"The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate."
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"We've endured too many tragedies. And each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would - as a parent."
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"My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets."
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"Sören Kierkegaard has another answer: human existence is possible as existence not in despair, as existence not in tragedy; it is possible as existence in faith... Faith is the belief that in God the impossible is possible, that in Him time and eternity are one, that both life and death are meaningful."
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"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy ? that is every man?s tragedy."
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"I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness."
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"I think in life we get very caught up in the minutia and, unfortunately, it generally takes some sort of tragedy in your life to put things in perspective."
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"Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity."
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"Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency."
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"The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge."
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"I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category."
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"I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior."
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"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
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"There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask."
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"This is really a twin tragedy both for the people who were misled over there and for those of us who were misled over here."
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"In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane"
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"Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever."
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"The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you."
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