I have not loved the world, nor the world me.
LORD BYRONThere is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The devil was the first democrat
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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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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A small drop of ink makes thousands, perhaps millions… think.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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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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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation – with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
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You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock?
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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