Without knowing the extremes of sadness and joy we can never fully know or feel all that life is.
Melancholy by Edgar Degas. Credit: Edgar Degas [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
“There is something so enchanting in the smile of melancholy. It is a ray of light in the darkness, a shade between sadness and despair, showing the possibility of consolation.” Leo Tolstoy
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