But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.
LORD BYRONFriendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
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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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Think not I am what I appear.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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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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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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