"Beauty is only the start of bearable terror." — Rainer Maria Rilke

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• Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
• Our triumphs seem hollow unless we have friends to share them, and our failures are made bearable by their understanding. — James Rachels
• So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will… — John Green
• Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of… — Finley Peter Dunne
• Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable. — Francine du Plessix Gray
• The good Lord in his ultimate wisdom gave us three things to make life bearable: hope, jokes, and dogs, but… — Robyn Davidson
• The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable. — Jodi Picoult
• You can’t change the tale so that you turned left one day instead of right, or didn’t make the mistake… — Gail Caldwell
• My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in… — Dinaw Mengestu
• Yes, this is what I thought adulthood would be, a kind of long indian summer, a state of tranquility, of… — John Banville
• The larger the percentage of the national income taken by taxes the greater the deterrent to private production and employment.… — Henry Hazlitt
• The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at… — Robert Frost

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