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But it isn’t only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It’s more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of every emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it’s a half-love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves. It is possible that in order to keep love, feeling, tenderness alive, it will be necessary to feel these emotions ambiguously, even for what is false and debased, or for what is still an idea, a shadow in the willed imagination only … or if what we feel is pain, then we must feel it, acknowledging that the alternative is death. Better anything than the shrewd, the calculated, the non-committal, the refusal of giving for fear of the consequences …
Doris Lessing life love pain terror

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LIFE 399 clues
PAIN 396 clues
AMERICA 251 clues
TERROR 231 clues
TRUTH 150 clues
GOVERNMENT 123 clues
ARISTOTLE 77 clues
HUMANE 47 clues
HUMANISM 42 clues
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  2. Novelist Lessing 75.86%
  3. Author Lessing 74.07%
  4. Writer Lessing 74.07%
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  6. Doris Leak's husband. 66.67%
  7. Doris Actress and singer 64.86%
  8. Doris Meissner's agcy. 64.71%
  9. Doris or Clarence 60.00%
  10. Doris ___, U. S. painter 60.00%
  11. Doris Day refrain 60.00%
  12. British novelist Lessing 59.46%
  13. Doris of films 59.26%
  14. Doris Duke, e.g. 59.26%
  15. Doris's wisdom? 59.26%
  16. Doris ___, tennis champion. 58.82%
  17. Doris and Clarence 58.06%
  18. Doris's 1937 diversion? 57.14%
  19. Doris or Dennis 57.14%
  20. Doris's protege? 57.14%
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Unscramble DORIS5-letter words that start with D5-letter words that end in S5-letter words containing OR5-letter words containing IS5-letter words with D and O
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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