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Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream. ↗

— Anatole France

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Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable. ↗

— Plato

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There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable situation in our 21st century America. ↗

— Rafael Correa

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one. ↗

— Thomas Paine

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She found me intolerable. But she got to know me, and I wore her down. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. ↗

— Saint Basil

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