Pleasure Quotes
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Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.
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Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its lack. To whom is it lacking? To the lover. If we follow the trajectory of eros we consistently find it tracing out this same route: it moves out from the lover toward the beloved, then ricochets back to the lover himself and the hole in him, unnoticed before. Who is the subject of most love poems? Not the beloved. It is that hole.
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I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
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Nature educates us into beauty and inwardness and is a source of the most noble pleasure.
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Tolerance to my mind has been greatly overrated . . . . I take as much pleasure in detesting the good brothers and sisters of the [Anti-Saloon] League as they have in hating me.
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There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.
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Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
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If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken, A ruin'd glove, a faded flower; Something that makes my pleasure less, Something that means--forgetfulness.
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.
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I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.
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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
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My guilty pleasure is 'Revenge.' I've watched it from the very first episode.
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Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.
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Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures.
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Alcohol carries the pleasures of the palate to their highest degree.
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
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Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and blessing, as well as responsibility!
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
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Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund
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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.
