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!
LORD BYRONLike the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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Self praise is no praise at all.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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A drop of ink may make a million think.
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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Adversity is the first path to truth.
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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 among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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