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Virginia Woolf
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
Edgar Allan Poe
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself,...” Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
Emily Brontë
“Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Anatole France
“And I say to myself as I watch her: All changes even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves: we must die to one life before we can enter into another!” Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Herman Melville
“A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
Marcel Proust
“The anaesthetic effect of custom being destroyed, I would begin to think and to feel very melancholy things.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
Alexandre Dumas
“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Henry Miller
“I’ve lived out my melancholy youth. I don’t give a fuck any more what’s behind me, or what’s ahead of me. I’m healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today!” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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