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"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."
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"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"
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"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
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"The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight."
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"Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss."
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"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."
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"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
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"I'm growing old, I delight in the past."
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"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."
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"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
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"Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words."
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"But maybe it's up in the hills under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is always only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found."
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"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."
Delight
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