“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Variant: The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.
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French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph… 1875–1965
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