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There is a phase of melancholy — a phase that has sloughed all urgency — that seems to me always a revelation of that ancient, familiar thing, my true self. If there is anything in a person with which one may be in love, surely it can only ever be the self that such melancholy reveals. There are potent and austere traditions that teach us a true self that has no qualities, no atmosphere, and which thus could never be revealed by melancholia; some of these traditions maintain, in a tone that suggests resistance is folly, that there is no self at all. But such traditions are not native to my soul, and within my life they are new, though they are older than me in history. For me, the self revealed by melancholy is older and thus truer.
Quentin S. Crisp The Little One: A Meditation melancholy self

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Unscramble QUENTIN7-letter words that start with Q7-letter words that end in N7-letter words containing UE7-letter words containing IN7-letter words with Q and U
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The old plural of Eye.
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NEE
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