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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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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. – Germaine Greer

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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

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

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Ive come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, its a Greek tragedy. – Billy Joel

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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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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. – Richard Powers

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If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. – Hannah Arendt

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