"How many scars did you justify because you loved the person who was holding the knife?"
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Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Tytus Woyciechowski wr. c. December 1831
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Loneliness looms not of aloneness but of a once loved up ship forced to depart the shore -
D C de Oliveira
December 01 2023 | Friday 6.53am
From Forlornly, Exiled
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O quam mirabilis est inspiratio que hominem sic suscitavit.
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Miles Johnston: Melancholia (2022)
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“It is on a day like this one, a little later, a little earlier, that you discover, without surprise, that something is wrong, that, without mincing words, you don't know how to live, that you will never know.”
(Perec, A Man Asleep, tr. A. Leak)
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morbid melancholy
Edgar Allan Poe, The Penguin Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe; from 'Metzengerstein'
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Virginia Woolf, from "Jacob's Room"
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