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Death, Life, Soul, Crime, Defeat, Pain, Struggle, Suffering, Tragedy, Violence

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

- Whittaker Chambers

Other quotes by Whittaker Chambers

When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.

- Whittaker Chambers

I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.

- Whittaker Chambers

A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for something.

- Whittaker Chambers

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

- Whittaker Chambers

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

- Whittaker Chambers

The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

- Whittaker Chambers

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