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Pleasure  Quotes
Good habits stockpile pleasure. Bad habits postpone pain.

—James Clear

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What is the best thing about people doubting your potential? The pleasure of proving them wrong.

—Ameya Agrawal

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DoubtInspirationLife
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JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

—Oscar Wilde

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

—Alan Watts

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PainPain-And-SufferingPleasure
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Pleasure and pain are on the same side of the coin of human experience. The opposite is indifference or numbness.

—R. N.

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ExperienceHumanityIndifference
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LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

—Oscar Wilde

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The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

—Edmund Burke

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FearHuman-MindIndifference
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Each indulgence in pleasure is an appointment made with misery.

—Jason Paul

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MiseryPhilosophyPleasure
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Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Because peace had been without thought? Without…integrity?How could she have felt like that without love?Was love essential?Did it even exist – the...

—Mary Balogh

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Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to...

—Marcel Proust

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DeathLifePleasure
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I was a married woman! she said. Why does every generation believe it is the discoverer of pleasure? Your father was a spectacular lover. Even through the wall, I could hear the triumph in her...

—Karen Essex

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There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

—Richard von

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There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries whoare jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmareafter acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.) Thelottery looks like “the...

—Steve Chandler

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The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

—Walter Bagehot

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ImpossibleLifePleasure
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Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life’s few pleasures.

—Tony DiTerlizzi

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EatPleasure
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Scandaliser est un droit. Être scandalisé est un plaisir.

—Pier Paolo

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The stoic contemplates fallen leaves; the epicure rakes them into a loveseat.

—Bauvard

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FunnyHumorPain
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Imagine a pleasure in which the moment of satisfaction is simultaneous with the moment of destruction: to kiss is to poison; lifting to your lips this face after which you have ached, dreamed, longed for,...

—Andrew Holleran

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GayLgbtPleasure
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Epicurus said you should live for pleasure – adding that nothing brings more pleasure than a little sun and a glass of water. It is on this principle that our conjugal existence has rested for...

—Benoît Duteurtre

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EpicurusExistanceLife
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Above Constance’s desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob’s viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men...

—Cecelia Ahern

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Say my name again. Not in anger, or disgust, but as you did just now. As if I am the only man in the world who can satisfy you.~Liam C.

—J.J. McAvoy

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NamePleasureSatisfaction
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I feel virtuous because my soul is at ease.

—Frances Wright

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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

—Francis Bacon

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EpicureanismKnowledgePleasure
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My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.

—Jack Vance

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People don’t think when they’re enjoying themselves. Thinking is a sign of disturbance.

—Marty Rubin

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You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a question of pleasure.

—Leopold von

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LovePleasureVenus-In-Furs
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When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires.

—Michael Bassey Johnson

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Longing, whether for a passion or person, is one of the most powerful, yet painful, emotions there is. It can drive you to its source under the most extreme conditions, or it can cripple you...

—Jennifer Salaiz

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DreamsHeart-AcheLife
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Somewhere I’d heard, or invented perhaps, that the only pleasures found during a waning moon are misfortunes in disguise. Superstition aside, I avoid pleasure during the waning or absent moon out of respect for the...

—Roman Payne

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When enough is not enough, a Hedonist is born.

—Sukant Ratnakar

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DisciplineExcessHappiness
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Would you agree,” he said, “that man’s sole duty is to produce as much pleasure as possible?””Only if the pleasure produced is equivalent to the diminution of pain.” My father crossed his arms. “And only...

—Susan Hubbard

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EthicsPainPleasure
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when we will unmake this world in which we are battered between long burden and brief delight, and will live in pleasure for all our days.” The belief in the possibility of long-lasting, high-flown pleasures...

—Thomas Ligotti

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CurseNaturePain
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The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we all desire, God withholds from us by the nature of...

—C.S. Lewis

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If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.

—Anne Brontë

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ComfortConvenienceMother
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They had set forth to rid their town of evil and had managed to rid it of pleasure as well.

—Angel Cox

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EvilFunPleasure
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Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband’s voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up...

—Elizabeth Gilbert

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I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure. And people come to a clean table, which gives...

—Iain M.

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AchievementChoiceDeath
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Each one of us is left to choose our own quality of life and take pleasure where we find it with the understanding that, like Mom used to say, sooner or later something’s gonna get...

—David Sedaris

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LifePleasure
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

—Edgar Allan

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I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he takes more pleasure in his perfect creatures, and cheers them on like a...

—George Saunders

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But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.

—Julio Alexi

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EmotionGriefJoy
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Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? […] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

—Manuel Maria

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FreedomPleasure
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We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our existence.

—Marcel Proust

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Sometimes we just go for our own pleasure.

—Ona Solomon

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We have a double pleasure in that, with the funding behind us, we can really celebrate having a new manager and beginning to look for a downtown office.

—Pamela Learned

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There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight. There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs. And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in...

—Richelle E.

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AngelsAttitudeAttitude-Toward-Life
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That?s where you respond to incremental successes with something that gives you personal pleasure.

—Patricia Kyle

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Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be.

—Steve Maraboli

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Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’ But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and...

—William Shakespeare

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