"I live, But live to die: and, living, see no thing 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 overcomeā And so I live. Would I had never lived!"
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Lord Byron
1812 ā 1818
George Gordon (Noel) Byron, 6th Baron Byron (January 22 1788 ā April 19 1824), generally known as Lord Byron, was an English poet and leading figure in Romanticism. He was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace.
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