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?
LORD BYRONTis 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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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover – but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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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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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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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 dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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!
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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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What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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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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