This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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The dew of compassion is a tear.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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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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Let joy be unconfined.
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I learned to love despair.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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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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