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
LORD BYRONI 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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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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It is when we think we lead that we are most led.
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This is the age of oddities let loose.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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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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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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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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