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

"Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing."

"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."

"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."

"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."
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"Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe."

"One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so."

"It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable."

"It is as if I were made of stone, as if I were my own tombstone, there is no loophole for doubt or for faith, for love or repugnance, for courage or anxiety, in particular or in general, only a vague hope lives on, but no better than the inscriptions on tombstones."

"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?"

"Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so."

"One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party."

"In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it."

"What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I think, what I think is different from what I ought to think and so it goes further into the deepest darkness."
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