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Letter "I" » intolerable
«The perception of poverty as morally intolerable in a rich society had to await the emergence of a rich society»
«The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.»
Author: Raoul Vaneigem
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«So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition»
«The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
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Uncertainty
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intolerable, permanent, uncertainties, uncertainty
«She is intolerable, but that is her only fault»
Author: Charles M. de Talleyrand
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intolerable
«There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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Mediocrity
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bombast, declaim, declaimed, declaiming, declaims, frigid, intolerable, pompously
«The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
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Life,
Possibility
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intolerable, permanent, uncertainty
«The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Among the Living, apt, conclusion, discontent, dishonest, insane, intolerable, invariably, personally, prevailing, regard, regard to, romantic, romantics, spread, superstitions, taboo, taboos, The Conclusion, the government, The Romantic, tries
«The intolerable wrestle / With words and meanings.»
«Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style.»
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