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"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."
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"Modern tragic writers have to write short stories; if they wrote long stories - cheerfulness would creep in. Such stories are like stings; brief, but purely painful."
"How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June" . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that-for that-I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"
"I have brought you a hero's fate, and a hero's fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic."
"It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century."
"On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers."
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"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."
"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns."
"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."
"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go."
"You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty."
"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it."
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