While
melancholy is a state of vague dreaminess, never deep or intense,
sadness is closed, serious, and painfully interiorized. One can be sad
anywhere, but sadness grows in intensity in a closed space while
melancholy flourishes in open spaces. Sadness almost always stems from a
precise motive and is therefore concentrated, whereas there are no
exterior causes for melancholy. I know why I am sad, but I do not know why I am melancholy.
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