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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…

— Karl Marx

“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted to…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“The most glorious ideas so often fail on the random cliff of tragic farce.”

— Mynona

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“So here at last were the first lines of the story that was later to come clear, a story of spite and bigotry, too…

— Mary Stewart

“History repeats itself. The first time as tragedy. The second time as farce. The third time as tourist trap.”

— Sarah Vowell

“Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.”

— Abraham Harold Maslow

“Unified by the horrible wars, instructed in our brutal stupidity by revolutions, by engineered famines directed by “ideologists” (heirs of Marx and Hegel and…

— Saul Bellow

“Tragedy shapes us, but it does not have to define us.”

— Susan Van Volkenburgh

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.-- Mark Twain

— Mark Twain

“But great tragedy is universal”

— Salman Rushdie