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One interesting thing is the idea that people have of a kind of science of Aesthetics. I would almos...

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Ludwig WittgensteinLectures and Conversations on Aesthetics

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments whi...

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Marquis de SadeGothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and e...

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I delight in what I fear.

I delight in what I fear.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But t...

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The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is m...

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The Professor never really seemed to care whether we figured out the right answer to a problem. He p...

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Yōko OgawaThe Housekeeper and the Professor

It is so delightful to teach those one loves!

Someone who managed to navigate the tricky waters between living a life you could be proud of and st...

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But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even C...

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Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smoo...

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Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying ...

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Gerry SpenceGive Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only k...

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It's a delight to trust somebody so completely.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?