Top 100 Quotes About Tragedy Of War

#1. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.

Isabel Allende

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#2. The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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#3. We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

Hassan Blasim

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#4. And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Lester B. Pearson

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#5. The tragedy of war is that it uses mas's best to do man's worst.

H. E. Fosdick

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#6. In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The story of their efforts is, on the whole, one of pathos and tragedy, of a few successes and many failures

Walter Prescott Webb

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#7. The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences; and these are also the principle reasons for our prejudices

Bryce Courtenay

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#8. In my sixteen years, I have experienced heartbreak, tragedy and transcending love. In my thirteenth year, I moved to Westerly and experienced all three.

Jaycee Relic

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#9. What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Mario Puzo

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#10. Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

Mark Shields

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#11. Life in fear is the worse tragedy that can happen to a man

Sunday Adelaja

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#12. It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Judy Collins

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#13. Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things - and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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#14. Tragedies have a way of waking us up to what is truly important.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

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#15. Pius XII, more than half a century ago, said that the tragedy of our age was that it had lost its sense of sin, the awareness of sin. Today we add further to the tragedy by considering our illness, our sins, to be incurable, things that cannot be healed or forgiven. We

Pope Francis

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#16. The problem is that I work in more than one genre. It's impossible for me to aim for a single one because, for me, comedy is mixed with tragedy. That's very Spanish, the way in which comedy and tragedy are inextricable from each other.

Pedro Almodovar

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#17. What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

George Pierce Baker

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#18. Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?

Justine Bateman

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#19. We visited the unlucky in the hospital and went to funerals, always remarking on the tragedy. But every time we stepped too close to it, we saw our own demises. We went with the full knowledge that we would one day die as well.

Donna Augustine

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#20. Not so long ago I'd been convinced that losing my voice was the worst thing that could ever happen to me, the worst tragedy. But since then I'd been losing my whole self, everything I stood for, believed in, felt. Everything I ever wanted to be. Everything I ever was.

Sarah Ockler

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#21. We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.

Barack Obama

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#22. The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.

Alasdair MacIntyre

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#23. It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

Chris Kyle

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#24. Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

Izzeldin Abuelaish

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#25. The greatest tragedy in life is our inability to experience and express fascination for the people and events we love while in their presence.

Darrell Calkins

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#26. If I had the pen of Moliere, I could make him comic. That is the role of art, is it not? To make monsters comic, so we can bear them, and our own cheap griefs into grand tragedy, so that others will weep with us.

Judith Merkle Riley

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#27. The existence of the Taliban, in my view, is a tragedy for Afghanistan. We as Americans need to understand our role in helping bring that tragedy about. So I think it's important to look at the stories about why these people are fighting.

Anand Gopal

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#28. One hardly need believe that the events in your life are actually planned as bolts from the blue, sent special delivery from a deity who is testing and training you like a lab rat! And that is what we are saying when we fretfully ask, What can God be trying to teach me through this tragedy?

Robert M. Price

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#29. There are no tragedies in life, only violent coup d'etats on the state of irrational optimism

Dean Cavanagh

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#30. The tragedy in a man's life is what dies inside of him while he lives.

Henry David Thoreau

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#31. The skies give no warning when they fall.

Marty Rubin

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#32. Severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this - that people can see things that aren't real and hear things that aren't real and believe things that aren't real, and act in that distorted reality.

Andrea Yates

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#33. PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers

Aeschylus

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#34. My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

Don McLean

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#35. My Akri says that tragedy and adversity are the stones we sharpen our swords against ao that we can fight new battles.- Simi

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#36. I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

Godfrey Reggio

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#37. We mourn for the dead, but it's a selfish act. It may be a tragedy that so many young lives are lost to us, but it's our tragedy alone because they are at peace.

Jenny Penn

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#38. All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Simone Weil

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#39. The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.

Daisaku Ikeda

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#40. The tragedy of too many people is that they cannot allow happiness just to be there; they cannot leave it alone. Their sense of who they are and of what their destiny is cannot accommodate happiness. So they are drive to find ways to sabotage it.

Nathaniel Branden

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#41. I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has tough things to overcome. My kids say to me, 'This isn't fair.' I said, 'Life isn't fair.' Everybody has their issues. It's how you handle your issues that distinguishes you.

Maria Shriver

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#42. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.

Henry Mosquera

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#43. The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.

Nicholas Sparks

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#44. spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying.

Laini Taylor

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#45. The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.

Norman Cousins

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#46. The blessing of a tragedy is that it puts your life into perspective.

Lisa Papademetriou

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#47. Mankind is immortal
in the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of nature
but by virtue of man's subjection to it. The "fall" in tragedy ends in
death; the fall in comedy ends in bed, where, by natures's arithmetic,
one and one make a brand new one.

Rose A. Zimbardo

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#48. Effort without talent is a depressing situation ... but talent without effort is a tragedy.

Mike Ditka

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#49. Genuine tragedy is a case not of right against wrong but of right against right - two equally justified ethical principles embodied in people of unchangeable will.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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#50. As one who appreciated the tragic side of eating, it seemed to him that anything other than fruit for dessert implied a reprehensible frivolity, and cakes in particular ended up annihilating the flavour of quiet sadness that must be allowed to linger at the end of a great culinary performance.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban

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#51. My thing was always more character-driven comedies, not sketch comedy - not that there's not room for both or one isn't enjoyable, just my personal taste, I like movies that comedy comes from out of flaws of people, things that are uncomfortable, out of tragedy.

Vince Vaughn

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#52. In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

John Chancellor

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#53. It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

Oscar Hammerstein II

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#54. Americans refused to see accidents as accidental. They did not comprehend they while tragedy always exacts a formidable price, it rarely incurs a debt.

Julia Glass

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#55. The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

Rick Warren

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#56. Men of success meet with tragedy. It was the will of God that I won the Olympics, and it was the will of God that I met with my accident. I accepted those victories as I accept this tragedy. I have to accept both circumstances as facts of life and live happily.

Abebe Bikila

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#57. When a being reveals his pain in such a torrent, you are bound to respect the whole of the tragedy.

Anne Rice

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#58. Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Karl Marx

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#59. I'm glad you think this is funny," he says. "Come on," I say. "Tragedy is funny." "Are we in a tragedy?" he asks, smiling broadly now. "Of course. Isn't that what life is? We all die at the end.

Nicola Yoon

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#60. It is a tragedy of the Germanic world that Jesus was Judaised, distorted, falsified; and an alien Asiatic spirit was forced upon us. That is a crime we must repair.

Adolf Hitler

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#61. Perfectly," replied Syme; "always be comic in a tragedy.

G.K. Chesterton

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#62. If perfection is absurd, why is tragedy common?

John Most

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#63. Storytelling is a landscape, and tragedy is comedy is drama. It simply depends on how you frame what you're seeing.

Lauren Groff

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#64. The real tragedy of our postcolonial world is not that the majority of people had no say in whether or not they wanted this new world; rather, it is that the majority have not been given the tools to negotiate this new world.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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#65. Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

Alex Lifeson

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#66. Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Grantland Rice

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#67. That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to instill a democracy in Iraq which will be an example and perhaps force other nations in that region to move in the same direction.

John McCain

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#68. The world is full of tragedy; and sympathy, a little common sympathy, can do so much to soften the worst of grief. It is for the lack of that, that people despair and go down.

Mona Caird

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#69. It is majestic, this love affair of ours, so powerful and regal. It is the kind of love that fairtales are born of. The kind that often ends in tragedy.

Addison Moore

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#70. I understand more than I want to. People act like love is a gift, but it's not. It's theft. It's a goddamn tragedy. Love is losing a vital organ to a man who will never give his in return.

Skye Warren

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#71. Had the Senate or House, or both, censured or somehow warned Richard Nixon, the tragedy of Watergate might have been prevented. Hopefully the Senate will not sit by while even more serious abuses unfold before it.

John Dean

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#72. It is a part of the intellectual's tragedy that the things he most values about himself and his work are quite unlike those society values in him ...

Richard Hofstadter

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#73. It is not triumph which defines a man, but tragedy. Triumph always brings out the best in men, but tragedy shows us what we are made of.

Jocelyn Murray

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#74. Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

D.H. Lawrence

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#75. I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

Diane Von Furstenberg

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#76. In the context of stress, the great paradox of the modern age may be that there is not more hardship, just more news - and too much of it. The 24/7 streaming torrent of tragedy and demands flashing at us from an array of digital displays keeps the amygdala flying.

John J. Ratey

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#77. The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

Len Deighton

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#78. Those stories helped me realize that, although tragedy and loss are regrettably commonplace, we aren't measured by what happens to us but rather by how we respond to it.

Steve Pemberton

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#79. The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Criss Jami

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#80. If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life
a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

Thornton T. Munger

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#81. The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.

Joyce Rachelle

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#82. If you ignore the warning signs, a tragedy awaits you ahead.

Cory J. Herndon

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#83. By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!

Diana Wynne Jones

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#84. People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

Lee Smith

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#85. The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

Gene Tierney

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#86. What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn't be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.

Julia Glass

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#87. I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

John Caudwell

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#88. Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.

Rebecca Solnit

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#89. Europe is standing on the brink of the greatest tragedy in the history of the human race: a new world war, that may involve the doom of our entire civilisation.

Vidkun Quisling

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#90. It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.

Bob Geldof

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#91. I always wanted to tell the story of how Pearl Jam is the story of lightning striking twice. As well as being the flipside of the classic rock tale where great promise ends in tragedy. This is where tragedy begins great promise.

Cameron Crowe

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#92. Reporters ... most were carrion who fed on human tragedy.

JoAnn Ross

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#93. Life's Tragedy
Making a living and making a life
are at odds.

Beryl Dov

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#94. The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value.

Sunday Adelaja

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#95. What are you thinking about?"
"Whether they'll write my life story as a tragedy or an epic fantasy.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#96. The past would haunt when the present let up, and always, always the future would loom with its certainty of tragedy and pain.

Erika Robuck

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#97. We can all endure disaster and tragedy, and triumph over them-if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.

Dale Carnegie

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#98. Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.

Kiefer Sutherland

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#99. It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

Erich Fromm

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#100. All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

Henry Miller

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