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«Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy»
Author: Havelock Ellis | About: Genius | Keywords: angle, angles, angling, fellows, tragedy
«It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.»
«In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.»
«History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.»
Author: Karl Marx (Philosopher) | Keywords: farce, farces, repeats, tragedy
«If life is just a stage, then we are all running around ad-libbing, with absolutely no clue what the plot is. Maybe that's why we don't know whether it's a comedy or tragedy.»
«I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors them selves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage.»
«Humor is tragedy plus time»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Humor | Keywords: humor, plus, pluses, tragedy
«History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.»
«All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.»
«he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'»

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