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Quote by Germaine Greer
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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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. – Germaine Greer

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Libraries
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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. – Germaine Greer

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Strangers
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Love, love, love — all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. – Germaine Greer

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Love
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The true end of tragedy is to purify the passions. – 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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Tragedy

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

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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. – Walter Pater

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Im sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything – I do everything all wrong – but I think for me thats the best – because I dont think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style – if I learned to sing Id lose my style. – Julie London

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We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I cant believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here. – Ruud van Nistelrooy

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