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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. – Ernst Fischer

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Tragedy is a representation of action that is worthy of serious attention, complete in itself and of some magnitude – bringing about by means of pity and fear the purging of such emotions. – Aristotle

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What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? – E. M. Cioran

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When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson

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What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs? – George Eliot

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