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Autobiography and memoir1 quote
We headed home holding hands. For a moment I dropped back to watch him walk. His sailor's gait always touched me. I knew one day I would stop and he would keep on going, but until then nothing could tear us apart. — Patti Smith · 2010Comedy (play)1 quote
By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy. — William Shakespeare · 1597Country music1 quote
It was a real slow walk in a real sad rain. — Johnny Cash · 1994Philosophical literature1 quote
All my joys to this are folly,
Naught so sweet as melancholy. — Robert Burton · 1621