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I looked around me, and my soul was wounded with the suffering of men.
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The speaker says that seeing the suffering of other people affected them deeply. “My soul was wounded” is a metaphor for intense inner pain, not a physical injury. The sentence presents compassion as something that can hurt: awareness of human misery becomes a personal emotional wound.
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- Jordan Russia Center, New York University
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