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For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishF...

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Oh, Starbuck! it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky. On such a day - very much such a swee...

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Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock.

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey ...

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Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but tha...

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So that you will hear memy wordssometimes grow thinas the tracks of the gulls on the beaches.Necklac...

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Pablo NerudaTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not ...

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It was a sordid scene. Philip leaned over the rail, staring down, and he ceased to hear the music. T...

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The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.

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AberjhaniElemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Other people's sorrows and joys have a way of reminding us of our own; we partly empathize with them...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran

He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b...

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Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all ...

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The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching t...

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The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe...

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Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguis...

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Would to Heaven we had never approached them at all, but had run back at top speed out of that blasp...

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H. P. LovecraftAt the Mountains of Madness

No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of ide

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H. P. LovecraftThe Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath