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Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

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LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

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It is a tragedy of the Germanic world that Jesus was Judaised, distorted, falsified; and an alien Asiatic spirit was forced upon us. That is a crime we must repair.

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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.

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Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.

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The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.

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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

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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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Who’s afraid of the big, bad buildings? Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don’t know. The gamble of triumph or tragedy at this scale — and ultimately it is a gamble — demands an extraordinary payoff. The trade center towers could be the start of a new skyscraper age or the biggest tombstones in the world.

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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.

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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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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

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Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

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We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

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Most of my life has been one tragedy after another, most of which hasn't happened.

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