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Surprised this one slipped my mind for so long; whenever a song is named after a hospital, there's good odds it's going to be a heartbreaker.

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Every time they came back to his lips, these exquisite, funereal laments called to mind a suburban scene, a shabby, silent piece of waste land, and in the distance, lines of men and women, harassed by the cares of life, shuffling away, bent double, into the twilight, while he himself, steeped in bitterness and filled with disgust, felt alone in the midst of tearful Nature, all alone, overcome by an unspeakable melancholy, by an obstinate distress, the mysterious intensity of which precluded any prospect of consolation, of pity, of repose...

A Rebours, J.K. Huysmans

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How I wish this was three times longer!

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These songs are pretty obvious selections, but that doesn't make them any less powerful:

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