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“When a novel has 200,000 words, then it is possible for the reader to experience 200,000 delights, and to turn back to the first page of the book and experience them all over again, perhaps more intensely.”

Firsts Book Turns Novel Reader Pages Delight

Author:Jane Smiley

“The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.”

Firsts Mother Love Is Animal Existence Delight Sensibility Expansion Absorbing Mother's Love

Book:Felix Holt: The Radical

Source: Felix Holt: The Radical

“It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.”

Feels Firsts Doe Stars Team Atheism Delight Farmers Abstraction Exquisite Conducting Astronomers

Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.”

Firsts Wells Judging Reader Standards Criticism Delight Reasonable

Book:The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe

Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe

“First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.”

Ifs Firsts Heart Eye Moving Emotion My Heart Surprise Delight Outrage Surprise Me

Author:Denis Diderot

“O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.”

Knows Men Firsts Causes Numbers Feet Judging Delight Gods Will Chosen Doctrine Esteem Mortals Makers Primal Predestination

Author:Dante Alighieri

“Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted.”

Firsts Remember Delight Delighted

Author:Sark