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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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"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."

"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."

"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."

"For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad."

"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables."

"We the mortals touch the metals,the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,knowing they will go on, inert or burning,and I was discovering, naming all the these things:it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."

"Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,but allow me to sail and sleep upon your name."

"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."

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

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
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