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

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Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

— Maya Angelou