The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
LORD BYRONIf a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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I learned to love despair.
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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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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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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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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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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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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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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