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 BYRONI should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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To have joy, one must share it.
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The great object of life is Sensation – to feel that we exist – even though in pain – it is this “craving void” which drives us to gaming – to battle – to travel – to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
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Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.
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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.
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