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  1. Irvin D. Yalom _ When Nietzsche Wept

    If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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  2. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The World as Will and

    What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.
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  3. Arthur Schopenhauer _ The World as Will and

    The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
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  4. Markus Zusak _ Underdogs

    The dog next-door had settled down, and the neighbourhood seemed stunned by this event occurring in our backyard. It was like it could sense it. It could sense some form of tragedy and helplessness being played out, and to tell you the truth, it all surprised me. I was so used to things just going on, oblivious and ignorant to all feeling.
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  5. Ariel Levy _ The Rules Do Not Apply

    And the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is nothing I would trade them for. There is no place I would rather have seen.
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  6. Christopher Marlowe _ Dr. Faustus

    What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die?
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  7. Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina

    And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.
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  8. Tom Stoppard _ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

    The bad end unhappily; the good, unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
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  9. John Webster _ The Duchess of Malfi

    Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lustLike diamonds, we are cut with our own dust
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  10. John Fowles _ The French Lieutenant's Woman

    For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.
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  11. John Fowles _ The Magus

    The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.""I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.""You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good."
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  12. Aberjhani _ Elemental: The Power of

    This world's anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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