O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen
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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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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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.
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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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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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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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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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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