Is there pleasure in the melancholic? I like reading sad films, I enjoy solitary

Is there pleasure in the melancholic? I like reading sad films, I enjoy solitary

Is there pleasure in the melancholic? I like reading sad films, I enjoy solitary walks getting sad about sad things, puffing cigarettes that I know will kill me, alone in cafes, half-drunk and looking out at swarms of people buzzing around me, getting sad that I might turn out to be one of them. Is there pleasure in the melancholy? Why?

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