The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
Very often when a story really holds us, it gets pushed away because it's too close for comfort.
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.
In each scene, the writer sets up a situation, which brings a conflict as well as either a small victory or a loss at the close of that particular scene.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
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