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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I am not now That which I have been.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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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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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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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The devil was the first democrat
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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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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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What an antithetical mind! – tenderness, roughness – delicacy, coarseness – sentiment, sensuality – soaring and groveling, dirt and deity – all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!
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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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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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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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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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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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The best prophet of the future is the past.
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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.
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