There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
LORD BYRONThey truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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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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Come what may, I have been blest.
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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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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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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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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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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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