Sentences with phrase «tragedies of human folly»

As Sidney Offit concludes, «Few writers in the history of literature have achieved such a fusion of the human comedy with the tragedies of human folly in their fiction.»

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And we remain on the earth, unchanged: human folly and tragedy remain what they have always been — but with the gnawing of love, the leaven concealed in the dough (but it has not yet risen), the seed hidden in the ground (but it has not sprung up), and the salt put in the soup (but it has not dissolved).
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