Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were.
LORD BYRONIf from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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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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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
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I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
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There is music in all things, if men had ears.
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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?
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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 tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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Who then will explain the explanation?
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Let joy be unconfined.
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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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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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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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