If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
LORD BYRONI 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!
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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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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There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Come what may, I have been blest.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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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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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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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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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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