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"Melancholy is no bad thing."
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"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."

"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."

"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."

"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."

"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."

"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
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"I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back."

"The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter."

"I've never lost perspective on who I am. Well, maybe briefly, but generally I'm pretty balanced."
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