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Tragedies Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute…
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
- Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
- For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about…
- After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not…
- In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
- In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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