• 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.

  Elizabeth Drew
  American political journalist and author
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1. self-conflict
2. immediate
3. knowledge
4. wasteful
5. leaking
6. lonely

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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. by : Elizabeth Drew

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