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Letter "T" » tragedies
«We know that their adventures are childish. They themselves are fools. They are ready to kill or be killed over a card-game in which an opponent -- or they themselves -- was cheating. Yet, thanks to such fellows, tragedies are possible.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
card, card game, childish, Game of cards, tragedies
«The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.»
Author: Paul Klee
(Artist)
| Keywords:
compositions, mastering, musical, musicals, paintings, prerequisite, sculptures, tragedies
«The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
epics, preservation, production, salvation, single, tragedies
«The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
against, assuming, beings, brings, by far, courageous, formidable, honor, human beings, painful, precisely, spiritual, tragedies, weapons
«The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.»
«Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.»
«Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies»
«The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties even»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Affection
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affections, duties, ennui, indulge, metamorphoses, tragedies, vanish, winter
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