Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us the wonder of our being. We are struck with admiration at some of its transient modifications, but it is itself the great miracle.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYThe pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
More Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
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Then black despair, The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.
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When a man marries, dies, or turns Hindu, his best friends hear no more of him.
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Joy, once lost, is pain.
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It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.
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Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes – are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
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I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
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Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.
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Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.
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All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
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A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought.
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When my cats aren’t happy, I’m not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they’re just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
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