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Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker describes loneliness and feeling unwanted as the worst kind of poverty. The comparison shifts attention from possessions to belonging, treating exclusion as a profound deprivation. It argues for the importance of being wanted by others without defining need solely in material terms.

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