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I learned to love despair.

Lord Byron

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
LORD BYRON

Beautiful Blue Ether Increase Light Mass Multiply Unimaginable Wildence
A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Guest Pretty Welcome Woman
They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Mourn Truly Without Witness
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Drop Ink Small Thing Word
America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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Coarseness Country Force Freedom Model Moderation People Rudeness
I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Emotion Feel Loved World
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Came Dead Infinity Inquire Know Living Midst Myriad Shall Star System Useless World
And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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Before Hear Music Once Perish Speak Voice
Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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Change Got How Made Opinion Truth
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!
LORD BYRON

All Death Die Hateful Innate Instinct Invisible Life Live Living Loathsome Make Nanjing Singing Sve
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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Fear Find Love Path Prey Way Wolve
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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Celebrity Glad Known Many Person
The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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Advocate Convert First Nepotism Republic Single Time Uncontracdicate Univeral
We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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All Believe Chose Fool Impostors Men Most Mystery Sect Understand Written
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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Been Known Lord Mercantile Politician Wait Written
But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
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Cheek Country Existence Face Hollow Hope Least Nothing Paint People Person Rub See Touch Truth

I learned to love despair.

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