What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
LORD BYRONMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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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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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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Think not I am what I appear.
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The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Absence – that common cure of love.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
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The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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