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the tiny papercut of the soul, too small to bleed, too sharp to ignore
means A feeling of mild irritation or displeasure, or the small thing that causes it.
from From the Old French 'enoier' or 'anoier,' meaning to weary, vex, or bore, which descends from the Late Latin phrase 'in odio' — literally 'in hatred,' as in the construction 'mihi in odio est' ('it is hateful to me'). So an annoyance carries a faint echo of an old, oversized word: what irks you today once shared a root with what you despised.
- collective noun
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- brain region
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- sound trigger
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