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Ephemeral artifacts cradle the beauty of the fleeting; they reveal not just transience but the deeper lure of feeling we cherish in their vicinity.
Author:
Iris Quinn
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Each quiet morning is a slow dance, where time unfolds itself softly, weaving between golden pauses and-simple awakenings beguiled by dawn's sinewy tranquility.
Author:
Eleanor Montgomery
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Emotions flutter like butterflies--rendering each moment an improvised dance where grace encounters the guilt of brevity.
Author:
Isadora Porter
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In the midst of restless highways and idle phones, urban stillness yields a melody only if we tune our hearts to listen rather than arrange to answer.
Author:
Diora Montclair
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Fleeting moments weave a tapestry both paradoxical and profound, where the thinnest threads promise Map oft unscripted stories unfinished.
Author:
Elara Nikos
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Hidden deep in the silence of yesterday, forgotten melodies wake like pulse racing memories that refuse to be unheard--eager to tell their tales once more.
Author:
Eloise Hartman
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Impermanent relationships remind us that beauty flourishes in fleeting moments; they orbit around profound connections, admitting depth while recognizing the edge of endings.
Author:
Lila Corbin
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In the soft murmur of shared secrets, great insight travels unshackled by declaration.
Author:
Alia Mercado
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In the shattered light of shifting perspectives, each veiled word breaths a renaissance of emotions collected between fleeting whispers.
Author:
Clara Stanton
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This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
Author:
William Yeats
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Diabetes is caused by melancholy.
Author:
Thomas Willis
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Author:
Arthur Wellesley
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When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful.
Author:
Francois Truffaut
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Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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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.
Author:
John Strachan
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Melancholy is no bad thing.
Author:
Sting
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My earlier poems were sadder than my poems are today, perhaps because I wrote them in confusion or when I was unhappy. But I am not a melancholy person, quite the contrary, no one enjoys laughing more than I do.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Author:
Baruch Spinoza
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Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
Author:
Sydney Smith
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
Author:
George Saintsbury
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There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
Author:
Alain Resnais
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The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Author:
Albert Pike
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It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
Author:
James Payn
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I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.
Author:
James Otis
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We have the melancholy dilemma of not being in a state to make peace or to prosecute war.
Author:
George Montagu
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I'm so involved in melancholy.
Author:
Isaac Mizrahi
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That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
Author:
Isaac Mizrahi
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Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Author:
Ismail Merchant
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A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?
Author:
Hugh Mackay
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Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Author:
Isidore Lautreamont
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The man must have a rare recipe for melancholy, who can be dull in Fleet Street.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions.
Author:
Chantal Kreviazuk
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Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.
Author:
Stephan Jenkins
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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
Author:
David Hume
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We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
Author:
Joseph Howe
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What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
Author:
David Guterson
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Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.
Author:
David Guterson
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It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
Author:
David Guterson
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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
Author:
Gunther Grass
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When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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Saturn seems to have impressed the seal of melancholy on me from the beginning.
Author:
Marsilio Ficino
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Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.
Author:
Francois Fenelon
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The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
Author:
Rita Dove
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Author:
Charles Dickens
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Within silence, the forgotten echoes dance in seemingly symmetrical chaos, whispering truth which time collapsed in shadows.
Author:
Hazel Parker
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Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Author:
Mason Cooley
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Author:
Samuel Coleridge
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The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
Author:
Jonathan Coe
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Author:
Maurice Chevalier
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A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
Author:
Will Champion
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There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Author:
Nicolas Chamfort
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Author:
Karel Capek
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In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
Author:
Daniel Boone
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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Author:
Ritchie Blackmore
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Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
Author:
Francis Beaumont
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Author:
Charles Baudelaire
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All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
Author:
Amelia Barr
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To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
Author:
Alcaeus
