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"Melancholy is no bad thing."
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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."
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"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being."
"I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children."
"The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment."
"I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving."
"The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way."
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