Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
LORD BYRONThe lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.
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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
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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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The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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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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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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I learned to love despair.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
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There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.
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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.
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
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Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Hearts will break – yet brokenly, live on.
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Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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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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I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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