"Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another."
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"We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms."
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"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."
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"A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight."
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"I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'"
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"There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave."
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"Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises."
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"Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain."
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"A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint."
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"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."
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"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."
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"Uneven numbers are the gods' delight."
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"There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection."
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"There is a delight in the hardy life of the open."
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"A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic."
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"Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight."
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"That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded."
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"If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason."
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"Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!"
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"Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power."
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