It is not so much the suffering as the senselessness of it that is unendurable.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher and poet
(Attributed)
Paraphrased by Nicolas Berdyaev, The Destiny of Man, 2.2.5 (1931) [tr. Duddington (1955)]
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