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torment
«The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.»
Author: Djuna Barnes
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torment
«The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and 'mangled mind' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.»
Author: Elizabeth Drew
(Writer)
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frustration, immediate, leaking, leaks, leak out, mangle, mangled, torment, vital force, wasteful
«Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.»
Author: Epicurus
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Richness
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exhilarate, exhilarated, loss, possession, riches, torment
«The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business»
Author: Frank Zappa
(Composer, Guitarist, Satirist, Song Writer)
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concepts, conducts, guaranteed, herein, horned, horns, horn in, pointed, stick, torment
«Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: / For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.»
«The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, / And saying, Alas, alas that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls! / For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off, / And cried when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto this great city! / And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.»
Author: Bible
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costliness, decked, gold dust, merchants, nought, one hour, pearls, precious stones, shipmaster, torment, wailing
«The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Love
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containing, invested, invested with, mysteries, torment