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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

Lord Byron

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.
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Crave Drive Even Exist Feel Game Great Life Object Pain Sensation Though Void
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Heart Instinct Like
The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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Ages All Around Bound Change Earth Every Language Lapse Skym Star Thing Time
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 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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Advantage Being Care Known Little Nothing People Time
Good work and joyous play go hand in hand. When play stops, old age begins. Play keeps you from taking life too seriously.
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Age Being Good Hand Joyous Old Play Stop Work
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Art Even Exist Great Life Pain Sensation
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Deny Doubt Everything Nothing Off Pagan Shake Short Something
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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All Death Die Hateful Innate Instinct Invisible Life Live Living Loathsome Make Nanjing Singing Sve
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Hour Lay May Ruin Scare State Thousand Year
They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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Mourn Truly Without Witness
The devil was the first democrat
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Democrat Devil First
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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Answer Gold Knowledge Letter Need Only Pleasure Reading
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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After Day Laughter Mirth Sermon Soda Water Wine Women
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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Deepest Know Knowledge Life Mourn Must Sorrow Tree
Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Call Hate Misanthrope Them

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