"I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me."
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"In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable"
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"It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier."
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"If through practice of insight you develop a sense of ease, then time has no relevance. If you're miserable, time does matter. It's so unbearable, so enormous you want to get out of it as soon as possible."
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"Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable."
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"I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike."
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"With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?"
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"Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke."
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"With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant."
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"Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I."
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"There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself."
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"The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on."
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"Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength."
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"Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to regions of purity, and there grow young again."
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"I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music."
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"To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?"
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