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"Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage."
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"My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!"

"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."

"Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul."

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

"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."

"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."

"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."
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"Of so much moon were your hips to me,of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight,of so much burning light like honey in the shade."

"I repeated: come with me, as if I were dying,and no one saw in my mouth the moon that was bleeding,no one saw the blood that was rising into the silence.Oh love, now let us forget the star with thorns!"

"Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way."

"I love you like the plant that does not bloomand carries in itself, hidden, the light of those flowers."

"Donde termina el arco iris,en tu alma o en el horizonte?Where does the rainbow end,in your soul or on the horizon?"

"You, in bloom, heart, beloved,you are like the foliage of the sky over my eyesand I look at you lying on the earth."

"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air."

"I love the piece of earth you are,because in all the planetary prairiesI do not have another star. You repeatthe multiplication of the universe."

"A book,a book fullof human touches,of shirts,a bookwithout loneliness, with menand tools,a bookis victory."
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