“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
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Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual 1939–2018Related quotes

Source: Epigrams, p. 364

“Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.”
Si l'ordre est le plaisir de la raison, le désordre est le délice de l'imagination.
Le soulier de satin: ou, Le pire n'est pas toujours sûr (Paris: Gallimard, [1929] 1936) vol. 1, p. 12; John O'Connor (trans.) The Satin Slipper (London: Sheed & Ward, 1931) p. xxiii.

“We take no pleasure in permitted joys.
But what's forbidden is more keenly sought.”
Quod licet ingratum est. Quod non licet acrius urit.
Book II; xix, 3
Amores (Love Affairs)