The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken.

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The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken.

Bruno Bettelheim

1979

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Bettelheim, Bruno. "The Holocaust - One Generation Later." Surviving and Other Essays. Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

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