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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Dispossessed

    Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?
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  2. Hermann Hesse _ Peter Camenzind

    I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
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  3. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    The words sounded like a mournful incantation.
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  4. Dan Simmons _ The Terror

    Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. {...}I did not know what to say to this.Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind.Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why.
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  5. Lois Lowry _ A Summer to Die

    She smiles, and her eyes look as if they can see back into her memory, into all the things that have gone into making a person what they are.
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  6. Douglas Coupland _ Life After God

    I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.
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  7. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
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  8. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.
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  9. Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451

    The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.
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  10. Herman Melville _ Moby-Dick, or, the Whale

    The sun hides not the ocean, which is the dark side of this earth, and which is two thirds of this earth. So, therefore, that mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true-- not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ The Graveyard Book

    You're going back?" asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. "You're really leaving? But. You're my guardian.""I was you're guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect.
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  12. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Team of Rivals:The Political

    Unlike depression, melancholy does not have a specific cause. It is an aspect of temperament, perhaps genetically based. One may emerge from the hypo, as Lincoln did, but melancholy is an indelible part of one's nature."
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