Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it ."
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Anguish
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher, Writer
"The existentialist says at once that man is anguish."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"One pain is lessened by another's anguish."
Betty Smith
Author
"They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted."
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"The friend anguish reveals is the slowest forgot."
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"Occasionally, I come to moments of anguish in the text."
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"Mirth is the Mail of Anguish --"
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"Which Anguish was the utterest--then-- To perish, or to live?"
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"And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?"
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"It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish."
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