I awoke one day to find myself famous.
LORD BYRONOf religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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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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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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I learned to love despair.
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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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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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