There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
LORD BYRONFor truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.
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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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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.
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I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week.
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Let joy be unconfined.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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Man is in part divine, A troubled stream from a pure source.
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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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Eat, drink and love…the rest is not worth a nickel
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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