Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
LORD BYRONMan, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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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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Damn description, it is always disgusting.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”
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A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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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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Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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