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And I realized that his experience of it — a feeling of forsakenness, of arbitrary cruelty — would be essentially the same as the tree’s.

From New York Times Mar. 23, 2017

With that thought, and before she had time to remember any reasons why it could not be true, came a new sense of forsakenness and disappointment.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George

And stealing yet more blessed than taking?'—THAT was forsakenness!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

A great feeling of forsakenness came over me.

From Pan by Hamsun, Knut

More dangerous have I found it among men than among animals:'—THAT was forsakenness!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

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