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"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."
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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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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."
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"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
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"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
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"I'm so involved in melancholy."
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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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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!"
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"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
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"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
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"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."
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"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live."
Life
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again."
Change
"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
Man
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
People
"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
Man
"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
Man
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Strength
"He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage."
Power
"The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth."
Politics
"The future is purchased by the present."
Future
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