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I looked about me — my soul was stung by the sufferings of humanity.
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The speaker says that seeing the suffering of other people affected them deeply. “My soul was stung” is a vivid way of expressing sharp emotional pain, not a literal injury. The sentence connects personal distress with the wider suffering of humanity.
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