For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
LORD BYRONThe first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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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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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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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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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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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
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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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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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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