Of sadness

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Some symbolists believe that yellow is a color that is associated with sadness and nothing better to represent it, than those dead leaves that autumn leaves behind, as a material trace that reminds us that everything in this world, at last and after all, it is ephemeral and therefore temporary.

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One of the saddest characters that ever existed, to which History, to avoid missing its disdain of not doing justice in time, was the painter Vincent Van Gogh, who undoubtedly, being aware of the strong grip that in his spirit had Made the terrible demon Meridiano - today, it is thought that the period that characterized him by his fixation on the yellow shades, was due to the excess intake of foxglove- left as sentence, that famous phrase, which says: 'sadness I will always accompany '.

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And it is that both sadness, like its cousin, loneliness, are evils that increasingly seem more characteristic of our time, rampant and competitive, where we also characterize ourselves for having forgotten those wise advice of the poet John Donne, when he said that nobody It is an island and I recommended never asking who the bell tolls for: because it always tolls for you.

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