A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragi…

Alain de Botton
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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily cease to weigh upon us so heavily. ✨ Alain De Botton (2008). Status Anxiety, p.156, Vintage
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