"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"

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"How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?"

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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."

Paul Engle, American Poet

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"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

Austin Dobson, English Celebrity

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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."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

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"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

William Blake, English Poet

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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

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"It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good."

Sarah Addison Allen, American Novelist

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"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

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"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."

Henry Alford, English Clergyman

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"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."

Sea

"Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair."

Despair

"I felt so weak and unhappy that I buried my face in the ground: I could not bear the strain of seeing around me the things of the earth. I felt convinced that every movement and every thought was forced, and that one had to be on one's guard against them."

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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

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"But all remains unchanged."

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"Oh well, memories, said I. Yes, even remembering in itself is sad, yet how much more its object! Don't let yourself in for things like that, it's not for you and not for me. It only weakens one's present position without strengthening the former one - nothing is more obvious - quite apart from the fact that the former one doesn't need strengthening."

Memory

"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

Choice

"I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance."

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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."

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"Even the merest gesture is holy if it is filled with faith."

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