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the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world. — Charles McCarry

I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain. — Yasunari Kawabata

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at. — Maria Edgeworth

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work. — Jack London

He could bear the dying, but not the disappointment. — John Flanagan

My hopes and dreams, so tattered and tender, had been sheltered by secrecy for so long that I could not bear to bring them to light. — S. Jae-Jones

I wondered, not for the first time, that the world could bear the weight of so many foul people. "Besides, — Sebastien De Castell

I could never bear to be buried with people to whom I had not been introduced. — Norman Parkinson

It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good. — Larry McMurtry

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Depend upon it, since Satan could not kill the church by roaring at her like a lion, he is now trying to crush her by hugging her like a bear. — Charles Spurgeon

I could not ask for forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault. — Daphne Du Maurier

[] no man is ever free and probably could not bear it if he were ... — William Faulkner

Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago. — Philip Jose Farmer

How many crimes have been committed for no other reason than that the perpetrator could not bear being in the wrong! — Albert Camus

she could not bear to let someone else perform a task when she could do it better herself. — Julia Quinn

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process. — Greg Bear

He could not bear to search for Christ again in stench and hollow eyes; for the Christ of pus and bleeding excrement, the Christ who could not be. In — William Peter Blatty

Sometimes I felt as if I could not bear it any longer to be away from you! — Johanna Spyri

Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience. — Alison Bechdel

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy

People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape. — Cassandra Clare

Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office. — Abraham Lincoln

How COULD they endure my happiness, if I did not put around it accidents, and winter-privations, and bear-skin caps, and enmantling snowflakes! — Friedrich Nietzsche

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. — Alexander Pope

We fell asleep wrapped in each other as if we could not bear to part, even in sleep we could not bear to let each other go. — Philippa Gregory

Forbid me not to weep; he was my father;
And, had you lov'd him half so well as I,
You could not bear his death thus patiently. — Christopher Marlowe

She could have phoned one of three friends, but she could not bear to hear herself explain her situation and make it irreversibly real. — Ian McEwan

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter. — Charles Spurgeon

What I could not understand was why the Didact had decided to save one of those very weapons whose creation he had so decisively opposed. — Greg Bear

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing. — Pat Conroy

What could be worse than another person's happiness? Not that his unhappiness would make us happy, but we need it in order to bear our own. — Hansjorg Schertenleib

And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring of fresh water in the desert. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me. — Susanna Clarke

I did not feel I could create a more beautiful or interesting Mars than Kim Stanley Robinson or Greg Bear had, so I turned my attention elsewhere. — Sarah Zettel

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. — Cormac McCarthy

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with. — Anais Nin

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble. — Mark Twain

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth. — Erich Maria Remarque