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• El melancólico río nos lleva. Cuando la luna atraviesa las ramas de los sauces, veo tu rostro, oigo tu voz y el canto de los pájaros al pasar por el lecho de mimbre. ¿Qué susurras? Pena, pena. Alegría, alegría. Entrelazados, como juncos a la luz de la luna.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moon, Voice, Rivers

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “The String Quartet”, p.5, Booklassic

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• I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.

  Laini Taylor

  Hands, Wings, Want

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• Mi curiosidad, por desgracia, no es de las que pueden satisfacerse con el conocimiento objetivo. Plato decía que la opinión no vale nada y que sólo cuenta el conocimiento, lo cual es una formulación pulcra. ... Pero los melancólicos daneses de las nieblas del norte entienden que la opinión es lo único que hay. Las grandes cuestiones trascienden los hechos, y el discurso es un proceso de la personalidad. El conocimiento no puede responder al conocimiento. ¿Y la sabiduría? ¿No es la opinión refinada, la opinión muerta y resucitada hacia arriba? Quizá Plato hubiera estado de acuerdo con esto.

  Hayden Carruth

  PlatoHombres, Personalidad

  "De mala gana: Ensayos autobiográficos".

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• Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine ― that is, activity ― which could solve it, is seen as odious. Archery? It is too cold, and besides, the butts need re-covering; the rats have been at the straw. Music? To hear it is tedious; to compose it, too taxing. And so on. Of all the afflictions, boredom is ultimately the most unmanning. Eventually, it transforms you into a great nothing who does nothing ― a cousin to sloth and a brother to melancholy.

  Margaret George

  Cousin, Brother, Archery

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• It's from being melancholy and having my human down experiences that I learn, that I overcome, that I transform - and these realizations I put into song. That's what I choose to put in my backpack and carry with me around the world.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Overcoming, Realization

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• I wasn't born in New York and I may never live there again, and just thinking about it makes me melancholy, but I was changed forever by it, my imagination is manacled to it, and I wear its mark the way you wear a scar. Whatever happens, whether I like it or not, New York City is fated always to remain my home.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Hogar, Pensamiento

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• A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Depression, Men, Appearance

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him.

  Robert Musil

  Past, Delicate Life, Shadow

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• La vida es un pozo de alegría; pero para aquellos de los que habla un estómago revuelto, que es el padre de la melancolía, todos los pozos están envenenados.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Father, Upset Stomach, Joy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.195, Penguin

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• The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Architecture, Human Life

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.382, Harvard University Press

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• Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Order, Essence

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.84

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• Si hay alguien a quien detesto, es a los sentimentales de mente débil: a todas esas personas melancólicas que, por un exceso de simpatía hacia los demás, se pierden la emoción de su propia esencia y van a la deriva por la vida sin identidad, como una niebla humana, compadeciéndose de todo el mundo.

  John Cheever

  Sorry, Fog, Essence

  John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). "John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings"

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• Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

  Thornton Wilder

  Children, Heart, Angel

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• I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?

  Richelle Mead

  Mamá, Hija, Madre

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.32, Penguin

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• With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Powerful, Disappointment, Compassion

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• La Navidad puede tener un aspecto realmente melancólico, porque se presenta a sí misma como una idea de cohesión familiar y amor perfectos, y uno siempre se va a quedar corto cuando compara su vida personal con las vidas personales idealizadas que se nos presentan constantemente en la cara, sobre todo a través de los anuncios de televisión.

  Dan Savage

  Navidad, Real, Ideas

  Entrevista con Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. 08 de febrero de 2006.

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• El dolor, el terror, la angustia, la desesperación misma son a menudo las expresiones elegidas de una aproximación al bien supremo. Nuestra simpatía en la ficción trágica depende de este principio; la tragedia deleita ofreciendo una sombra del placer que existe en el dolor. Esta es también la fuente de la melancolía que es inseparable de la melodía más dulce. El placer que hay en el dolor es más dulce que el placer del placer mismo.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Pain, Expression, Sorrow

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2006). “A Defence of Poetry: an Essay: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I've always seen making movies as a bunch of little births and deaths. We come in. We don't know anybody or very few people that we work with, but the nature of the job pulls us into a sort of an intimate kind of relationship and communication and then they're gone and it's kind of melancholy. You miss that guy but then suddenly you're working with him again maybe somewhere.

  Beau Bridges

  Jobs, Communication, People

  Fuente: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

  Michael Chabon

  House, Emptiness, Whole

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• Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.

  Robert E. Howard

  Manos, Pies, Negro

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom”, p.473, Del Rey

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• Para mí, la melancolía de finales del siglo XX es pasar a altas horas de la noche por la tienda de plumas Mont Blanc y ver que estas cosas siempre me parecen simulacros de artículos de lujo. Parecen falsificaciones.

  William Gibson

  Noche, Lujo, Falso

  Fuente: craphound.com

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• Abraham Lincoln was a melancholy man, so he had a dark side that appeals to horror fans.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Dark, Men, Fans

  Fuente: horrornews.net

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• The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening effect upon the nerves. It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony to the accompaniment of our thoughts, whether grave or gay. When they are gay, the waves echo their gaiety; but when they are sad, then every breaker, as it rolls, seems to bring additional sadness and to speak to us of hopelessness and of the pettiness of all our joys.

  Baronesa Orczy

  Heart, Sadness, Gay

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• Durante mucho tiempo no me había acercado a la fruta prohibida llamada felicidad, pero ahora me tentaba con una melancólica persistencia. Sentía como si Sonoko fuera un abismo sobre el que me balanceaba.

  Yukio Mishima

  Persistencia, Largo, Fruta

  Yukio Mishima (1958). "Confesiones de una máscara", p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunny place.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Thinking, Istanbul, Cities

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