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Tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, tragōidia, "he-goat-song"]. is a form of art based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. While most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response, tragedy refers to a specific tradition of drama that has played a unique and important role historically in the self-definition of Western civilisation. That tradition has been multiple and discontinuous, yet the term has often been used to invoke a powerful effect of cultural identity and historical continuity—"the Greeks and the Elizabethans, in one cultural form; Hellenes an
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
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You must save yourself," Tairn demands. "I chose you not as my next but as my last, and should you fall, then I will follow.
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― Iron Flame
― Iron Flame
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