The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
LORD BYRONI stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand;
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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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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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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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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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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Socrates said, our only knowledge was “To know that nothing could be known;” a pleasant Science enough, which levels to an ass Each Man of Wisdom, future, past, or present.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism.
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Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
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