Pleasure Quotes
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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
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Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
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There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
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If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture...In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.
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The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
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Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
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He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.
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There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.
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Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
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There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal.
