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• For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Angel, Able, Terrible

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• Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Character, Suffering

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.

  Garrison Keillor

  Men, Texas, Envy

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• He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Idiot, Mystery, Pure

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.385, Macmillan

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• A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Fall, Government

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.-Marius

  Anne Rice

  Lying, Anger, Weakness

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• Who would bring light must endure burning.

  David Zindell

  Light, Burning

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• Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

  Ludwig Borne

  Doe, Would Be, Rust

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• My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Heart, Hatred, Vices

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1988). “Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus: With Supplementary Essays and Poems from the Twentieth Century”, p.187, Orchises Press

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• the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

  Anita Shreve

  Struggle, Infinite, Possibility

  Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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• a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

  Bertrand Russell

  Flower, Cutting, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.36, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.

  Isak Dinesen

  Loneliness, Farewell, Men

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• I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Heart, Blood

  "Moab Is My Washpot". Book by Stephen Fry, 1997.

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• Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Laughter, Men, Suffering

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.36, 谷月社

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• I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Crush, Powerful, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.299, Macmillan

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• Mr. Rochester, I no more assign this fate to you than I grasp at it for myself. We were born to strive and endure - you as well as I: do so. You will forget me before I forget you.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fate, Forget You, Strive

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

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• Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, Fall, Clouds

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.227, A&C Black

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• Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

  Robin Hobb

  Pain, Why Not, Anticipation

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• In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

  Oscar Wilde

  Struggle, Silly, Mind

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could endure the notion of their children laying their heads upon their pillows; in short, that there never more could be, for them or theirs, any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisoner's head was taken off.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Taken, Ideas

  "All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal".

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• She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl

  Eoin Colfer

  Degrees, Fowl, Littles

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• My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Please, Marble

  "The Little Gypsy". "The Little Gypsy" by Miguel de Cervantes, 1613.

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• The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  Mark Twain

  Friendship, Sweet, Money

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 8, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Believe, Space

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Men, Choices, Events

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