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Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappe...

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All this time I had never been able to consider my own situation, nor could I do so yet. I had not t...

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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

If someone who is agitated comes to visit you, wanting to discuss their agitation and weigh the pros...

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There's a girl in this dress,there's always a girl in distress.

All agree that, the first responsibility for the alleviation of poverty and distress and for the car...

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To pity distress is but human to relieve it is Godlike.

I cannot, I cannot,' cried Marianne; 'leave me, leave me, if I distress you; leave me, hate me, forg...

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your est...

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he writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unreal...

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Renata AdlerToward a Radical Middle: Fourteen Pieces of Reporting and Criticism

The joy and laughter and youth they brought was an antidote to the somberness enveloping his flat, t...

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When I penetrate into that house, if I ever do, it will be to go on turning, faster and faster, more...

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It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one ...

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William StyronDarkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness