It's okay to be alone, to be sad, to rest and repair. Really.

Susan Cain

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At the heart of all great art is an essential melancholy.

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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.

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Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

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We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

Erich Maria Remarque

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