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Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even tho

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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Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves. – Germaine Greer

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sad
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Germaine Greer
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Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release. – Germaine Greer

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

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Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy. – Jacques Barzun

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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. – William Dean Howells

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No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily. – Andre Breton

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And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12:5 – Bible

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. – John Bunyan

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Dreams have only one owner at a time. Thats why dreamers are lonely. – Erma Bombeck

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