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Melancholy Quotes
"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
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"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."
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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
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"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."
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"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."
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