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 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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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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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 slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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The heart will break, but broken live on.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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