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I wouldn't overall say that "The Diagnosis" is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.

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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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The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

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

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

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

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For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

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I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

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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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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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Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

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The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world.

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

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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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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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Magic likes a good tragedy, too.

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Humor is tragedy plus time.

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