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Letter "A" » agony
«Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
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About:
Suffering
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Keywords:
agony,
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Caresses,
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creeping,
creep in,
creep up,
crept,
fumble,
fumbles,
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gnaw,
gnawed,
gnaws,
gnaw at,
hurts,
The Agony and
«Agony - Not all pain is gain.»
«And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.»
«[Rudolph Valentino was] what is commonly called for want of a better name, a gentleman. In brief, Valentino's agony was the agony of a man of relatively civilized feelings thrown into a situation of intolerable vulgarity.»
«Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.»
Author: John Ruskin
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Critic,
Writer)
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About:
Humility
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Keywords:
agony,
blade,
elephant,
goad,
goaded,
goads,
joyously,
sugar,
sweetness,
tastes,
The Mighty,
trembles,
trodden,
underneath
«Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?»
«As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.»
«Alone, alone, all all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony»
«Acting in evil and corruption, people are immersed in corruption. Without the Name, they find no place of rest. In the City of Death, they suffer in agony.»