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  • n  self-imposed distress

  • ENVY, writes Novelist Angus (Anglo-Saxon Attitudes) Wilson, is perhaps the dourest of sins, since "it knows no gratification save endless self-torment.
  • But unlike the psychologist, he does not regard guilt as "an illusion, a form of groundless self-torment.
  • In the West, the tension between the two, and the general confusion about the many facets of love, leads to a kind of self-torment that, says Italian Author Leo Ferrero, "might .

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