what's the line from The English Patient? It's not the morality, it's how much you can bear. The limits of endurance. Now I'm thinking of the sides of nature will not hold or whatever the line was, but the truth is that the sides of nature don't even notice. We have a far more limited capacity for endurance. Is it terrible to be talking about endurance, as if love were something to be endured, to be borne, to bear up against?