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"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."
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"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
"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."
"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."
"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
"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."
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"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history."
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