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Quotes from Sardanapalus — Lord Byron

1788–1824 England

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How my soul hates This language,
Which makes life itself a lie,
Flattering dust with eternity.

Sardanapalus (1821)

Eat, drink, and love; the rest's not worth a fillip.

Sardanapalus (1821)

By all that's good and glorious.

Sardanapalus (1821)

I am the very slave of circumstance
And impulse — borne away with every breath!
Misplaced upon the throne — misplaced in life.
I know not what I could have been, but feel
I am not what I should be — let it end.

Sardanapalus (1821)

The dust we tread upon was once alive.

Sardanapalus (1821)

Oh! if thou hast at length
Discover'd that my love is worth esteem,
I ask no more—but let us hence together,
And I — let me say we — shall yet be happy.
Assyria is not all the earth—we'll find
A world out of our own — and be more bless'd
Than I have ever been, or thou, with all
An empire to indulge thee.

Sardanapalus (1821)

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