This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality.
LORD BYRONBut 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.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
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Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
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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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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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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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If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
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Tis the perception of the beautiful, A fine extension of the faculties, Platonic, universal, wonderful, Drawn from the stars, and filtered through the skies, Without which life would be extremely dull
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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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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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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Of religion I know nothing — at least, in its favor.
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