“Storm and stress; phrase suggested to F. M. Klinger as a title for his new play.”

— Christoph Kaufmann

Sturm und Drang
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2nd ed. 1981) p. 138

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Context: I have an essay with the title "Eyes in their Last Extremity".
The title comes from the suicide note of the short-story writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke... It is the phrase that pulls at me with the greatest strength. Akutagawa said that he seemed to be gradually losing the animal something known as the strength to live, and continued:
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