Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
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When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.
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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life.
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The greatest tragedy in America is not the destruction of our natural resources, though that tragedy is great. The truly great tragedy is the destruction of our human resources by our failure to fully utilize our abilities, which means that most men and women go to their graves with their music still in them.
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It's not the tragedies that kill us, it's the messes.
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