"Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies"
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"I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful."
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"Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play."
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"Terrorism is fueled by hate. The tragedy is that there are countless young children who are being taught to hate. Terrorism is usually fueled also by poverty."
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"A Soviet citizen, an official writer, once said to me: "The day when Communism (that is, well-being for everyone) reigns, man's tragedy will begin: his finitude.""
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"Human comedy is more profound than tragedy. In tragedy we die and it is very sad. In comedy we avoid death, and it is even sadder."
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"At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy."
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"It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy."
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"Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it."
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"Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor."
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"Tragedy is the highest form of art."
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"I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history."
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"We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy."
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"Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique."
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"Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of."
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"Your tragedy is God’s opportunity to show Himself faithful."
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"You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth."
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"Is it perhaps the one necessity of love, that it be needed? And the one great human tragedy that it so rarely is?"
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"Life should be taken ironically; otherwise, it becomes a tragedy."
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"You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s."
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