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farces

«Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.»
Author: Arthur Rimbaud (Poet, Writer) | Keywords: farce, farces, perform
«Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.»
«The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.»
«A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.»
«History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.»
Author: Karl Marx (Philosopher) | Keywords: farce, farces, repeats, tragedy
«It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Novelist) | About: Virtue | Keywords: farce, farces
«Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.»
«If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce»
«I gleaned jests at home from obsolete farces.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: farces, gleaned, jests
«The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act»