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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
Oscar Wilde
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
Emile M. Cioran
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Nora Ephron
Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.
James Bovard
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