"The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act."
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"What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?"
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"He is a [sane] man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head."
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"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."
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"We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think."
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"Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity."
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"One can play comedy, two are required for melodrama, but a tragedy demands three."
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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."
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"The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny."
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"With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life."
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"The composition of a tragedy requires testicles."
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"One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
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"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
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"The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial."
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"The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young."
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"It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life."
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"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons."
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"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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"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"
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"It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live."
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