Pleasure Quotes
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Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.
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We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.
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I think women become more wrapped up emotionally in men when sex is involved. And I think men have a much easier time of having innocuous, meaningless sex for pleasure. It's just how we're built genetically.
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Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.
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I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
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You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
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Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.
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When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
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The pleasure that attaches to the artistic life comes in imagining what we might do as opposed to acknowledging what we have done.
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Fear and aversion, in some perverse way, can be transformed into pleasure.
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It s easier to impress someone than to give them pleasure.
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Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
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The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
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Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
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It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
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Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.
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For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.
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So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
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The hands of those I meet are dumbly eloquent to me. The touch of some hands is an impertinence. I have met people so empty of joy, that when I clasped their frosty finger-tips, it seemed as if I were shaking hands with a northeast storm. Others there are whose hands have sunbeams in them, so that their grasp warms my heart. It may be only the clinging touch of a child's hand; but there is as much potential sunshine in it for me as there is in a loving glance for others. A hearty handshake or a friendly letter gives me genuine pleasure.
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Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.
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Women find little pleasure in the society of women.
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Whatever the reasons, I enjoyed being nude; it felt natural to me. I got the same kind of pleasure from being free of clothing that many people get from being well dressed.
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It's fun to give pleasure to people.
