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Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort The pleasure arising from an extraordinary agitation of the mind is frequently so great as to stifle humanity; hence arises the entertainment of the common people at executions, and of the better sort at tragedies. - Abbe Jean-Antoine Dubois The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. - Albert Einstein Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille. - Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. - George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Blair) There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (act IV) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)
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