“Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
— Virginia Woolf, book Orlando: A Biography
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