Pleasure Quotes
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For all children, mothers are their first love, their first acquaintance with intimacy, touch, warmth, tenderness, sustenance. Infancy is a conspiracy between mothers and their babies, a bond that fathers can only helplessly witness, denied the profound pleasure and pain of giving birth.
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Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
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We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster. This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.
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If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!
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It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.
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I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
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I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway.
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Happiness is unrepented pleasure.
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Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
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The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
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Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.
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I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
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I do work-related stuff on airplanes. Then, when I'm in the hotel room or just vegging out, I read for pleasure.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
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Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
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I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.
