"You are far more likely to do your best work if you are willing to delight a few as opposed to soothe the masses."
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"Surprise and delight and connection are remarkable."
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"It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same for love."
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"To delight in conquest is to delight in slaughter."
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"To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom."
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"Let ancient times delight other folk, I rejoice that I was not born till now."
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"My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?"
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"The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it."
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"A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice."
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"the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't."
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"If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes."
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"It's hard to think of a 16-month child being anything other than a delight to be around."
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"I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by."
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"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore."
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"Even in the lust of knowledge I feel only my will's delight in begetting and becoming; and if there be innocence in my knowledge it is because my procreative will is in it."
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"Then a lawyer said, But what of our laws, master? And he answered: 'You delight in laying down laws. Yet you delight more in breaking them."
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"Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more."
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"Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me."
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"Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex."
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"I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity."
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