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"I'm so involved in melancholy."
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"Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her."
"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet... I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me."
"He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height."
"In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking."
"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
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"That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it."
"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America."
"You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think."
"What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!"
"I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure."
"I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves."
"You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy."
"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."
"The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing."
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