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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions.

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A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

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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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With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

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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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If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.

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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

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I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.

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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.

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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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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

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It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

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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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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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Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

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The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

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The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence.

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We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation.

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Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress.

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