What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONCome what may, I have been blest.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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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 dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals?
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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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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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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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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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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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I learned to love despair.
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