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Tragedy Quotes
"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die "
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Salvador Dali
"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations"
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Adam Smith
"The paradoxical and tragic situation of man is that his conscience is weakest when he needs it most"
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Erich Fromm
"There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past"
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Indira Gandhi
"It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around."
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Rose Kennedy
"Comedy is tragedy plus time"
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Carol Burnett
"And no matter how many lovers you kill you can't kill your first"
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Anne Sexton
"An unfinished life is now a tragic experience"
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Honore de Balzac
"I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy. Second, there are no tragic answers, only silent ones."
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Elie Wiesel
"To the last I grapple with thee from hell’s heart I stab at thee for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee"
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Herman Melville
"The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over."
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Nicholas Sparks
"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world"
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Edgar Allan Poe
"We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look"
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Aldous Huxley
"Only the dead have seen the end of war "
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Plato
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