"Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself."
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"I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison."
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"We simply prefer to deny death or tragedy at all costs and, with it, a fundamental aspect of life. We do this instead of acknowledging that suffering represents one of the strongest incentives of life, which is the base of human solidarity and what brings intensity to happiness."
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"The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes."
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"The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness."
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"In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a slow but irresistible process, loosening and finally parting. Out of my life and Thought."
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"It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one."
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"The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions."
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"Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have."
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"The tragedy of Karbala decided not only the fate of the Caliphate, but also of Mohammadan kingdoms long after the Caliphate had waned and disappeared."
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"I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject."
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"When I was young, I wanted to be a dramatic writer, a writer of tragedy. Nothing would've pleased me more than if I could have written like Eugene O'Neil or Tennessee Williams."
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"I think the big tragedy of the Cuban Revolution was that it became dependent on the Soviet Union, and it became dependent on the Soviet Union under a very reactionary bureaucratic regime led by Leonid Brezhnev."
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"Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one."
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"For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive."
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"We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy."
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"Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth."
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"I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy."
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"It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies."
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"In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them."
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