“Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.”
Source: Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
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"Exposure of False Faith" (1524), in Revelation and Revolution: Basic Writings of Thomas Müntzer (1993), p. 117
Exposure of False Faith (1524)
Original: (de) Es ist der Natur ein unleidlichs Werk, die Furcht Gottes zum Anfang des Glaubens zu machen.