"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
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"The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away."
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"The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us."
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"A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else."
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"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
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"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street."
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"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow."
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"What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?"
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"No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell."
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"She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love."
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"Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success."
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"And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again."
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"I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good."
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"For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
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"When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out."
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"All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible."
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"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve."
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"There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate."
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"Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain."
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"Love is the distance between reality and pain."
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