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Quote by Aldous Huxley
We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. - Aldous Huxley

We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley

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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – Aldous Huxley

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History
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Aldous Huxley
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

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Death
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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. – Germaine Greer

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Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. – Antonin Artaud

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Tragedy

Mans extremity is Gods opportunity. – John Flavel

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Tragedy

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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Tragedy

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