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    I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.

by The Lion Found in: Melancholy Quotes,
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Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the read more

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged

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to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

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Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

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Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to read more

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

by E. M. Cioran Found in: Melancholy Quotes,
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Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute read more

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

by Lady Gregory Found in: Melancholy Quotes,
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To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.

by Bodenstedt Found in: Melancholy Quotes,
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