“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”

—  Geoff Dyer

Source: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence

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Geoff Dyer 18
English writer 1958

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