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«One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time»
Author: Idries Shah
| About:
Belief,
Tragedy
| Keywords:
illustrative, modern times, provocation, provocations, represents, tragedies
«My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.»
«There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.»
«It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.»
«Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.»
«The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bewildered, preconceived, relation to, tragedies
«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.»
«There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.»
«O comfort-killing night, image of hell, dim register and notary of shame, black stage for tragedies and murders fell, vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
concealing, dim, murders, notaries, notary, nurse, register, registered, registering, registers, The Register, tragedies
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