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There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.
There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy.
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
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I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
Don't tell me peace has broken out.
