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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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"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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"I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet."

"Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly."

"I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you pass,The nonexistent carpet.And when you appearAll the rivers soundIn my body, bellsShake the sky,And a hymn fills the world.Only you and I,Only you and I, my love,Listen to it."

"By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness."

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