"The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable."
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"Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable."
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"Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short."
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"Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love."
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"With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable."
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"That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own."
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"Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with."
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"Until we know that we can bear the unbearable, we're always running scared."
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"You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a moment when you're famous just right."
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"If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it."
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"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable."
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"For nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom."
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"Silence is the unbearable repartee."
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"Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts."
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"This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library."
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"Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has traveled is the worst."
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"A single metaphor can give birth to love."
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"When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why."
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"There are too many heavy songs out nowadays. music has been getting too heavy, almost to the state of unbearable."
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"The existential split in man would be unbearable could he not establish a sense of unity within himself and with the natural and human world outside."
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