The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
LORD BYRONWhat deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome – and so I live. Would I had never lived!
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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I learned to love despair.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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