tragic

is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life. . . . A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person-- it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life. . . . A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered. Ivan Turgenev

is the same as the comic inasmuch as both are contradiction, but the tragic is suffering contradiction, and the comic is painless contradiction.

The tragic and the comic are the same inasmuch as both are contradiction, but the tragic is suffering contradiction, and the comic is painless contradiction.

's source in history is in mistaking someone else’s unconditional for conditional—and the reverse.

The source of the tragic in history is in mistaking someone else’s unconditional for conditional—and the reverse.

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