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• I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Philosophy, Saws, Belief

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• As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

  Jon Stewart

  Made

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  You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

  Clara Barton

  Nursing, Thinking, Needs

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• old age is more bearable if it can be helped by an early acceptance of being loved and of loving.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Acceptance, Age, Ifs

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• Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.

  Junot Diaz

  Love Is, Want, Possibility

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Beauty

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• If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and not she, that is at fault.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Grief, Support, Faults

  Letter to Jules Siegel, Cavalier magazine, August 1965.

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• The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

  Jodi Picoult

  War, Nursing, Games

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte Carlo her husband had been waiting in for nearly an hour, she could have said that she respected its place as a mediator between two extremes. Fall came and went, while winter was endured and summer was revered. Fall was the repose that made both possible and bearable, and now here she was was with her husband next to her, heading headlong into an early-fall afternoon with only the vaguest ideas of who they were becoming and what came next.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Summer, Mother, Husband

  Dinaw Mengestu (2010). “How to Read the Air”, p.16, Penguin

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• Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of calm incuriousness, with nothing left of the barely bearable raw immediacy of childhood, all the things solved that had puzzled me when I was small, all mysteries settled, all questions answered, and the moments dripping away, unnoticed almost, drip by golden drip, toward the final, almost unnoticed, quietus.

  John Banville

  Summer, Long, Childhood

  John Banville (2008). “The Sea”, p.94, Pan Macmillan

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• The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment. When the total tax burden grows beyond a bearable size, the problem of devising taxes that will not discourage and disrupt production becomes insoluble.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Taken, Political, Income

  Henry Hazlitt (2010). “Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics”, p.35, Crown Business

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• The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Style, Way

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.120, Harvard University Press

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• Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the passage of time, lust causes time to stand still, lust kills time, which is not to say that it wastes it or whiles it aimlessly away but rather that it annihilates it, cancels it, extirpates it from continuum; preventing, while lasts, any lapse into the tense and shabby woes of temporal society, lust is the thousand-pound odometer needle on the dashboard of the absolute.

  Tom Robbins

  Track, Lust, World

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• Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

  Rowan Williams

  Making Love, Truth Is, Possible Love

  Rowan Williams (1995). “A Ray of Darkness”, p.200, Cowley Publications

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• I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Believe, Anger, People

  Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins

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• Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

  Josephine Hart

  Found, Let Me, Enjoyable

  "Josephine Hart obituary" by Lennie Goodings, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Alcohol and marijuana, if used in moderation, plus loud, usually low-class music, make stress and boredom infinitely more bearable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Weed, Stress, Marijuana

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• As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

  Clifford Geertz

  Strength, Religious, Pain

  Clifford Geertz (2017). “The Interpretation of Cultures”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Pain, Remembrance, Deny

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• The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Differences, Life Is

  Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.239, City Lights Books

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• When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

  Lynda Barry

  Art, Thinking, People

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• The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

  Wayne Muller

  Pain, Fundamentals

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• Humour is the best way to make the unbearable bearable.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Way, Unbearable, Humour

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.31, A&C Black

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• Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Pain, Struggle, Hero

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• Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding.

  James Rachels

  True Friend, Real, Understanding

  James Rachels (1999). “The Elements of Moral Philosophy”

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