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“Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
― Emma
― Emma
“I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.”
― Rooftop Soliloquy
― Rooftop Soliloquy
“Uncompromising purpose and the search for eternal truth have an unquestionable sex appeal for the young and high-minded; but when a person loses the ability to take pleasure in the mundane--in the cigarette on the stoop or the gingersnap in the bath--she had probably put herself in unnecessary danger.”
― Rules of Civility
― Rules of Civility
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
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“She poured out Swann's tea, inquired "Lemon or cream?" and, on his answering "Cream, please," said to him with a laugh: "A cloud!" And as he pronounced it excellent, "You see, I know just how you like it." This tea had indeed seemed to Swann, just as it seemed to her; something precious, and love has such a need to find some justification for itself, some guarantee of duration, in pleasures which without it would have no existence and must cease with its passing.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“Procrasdemon is fighting hard to feed off of distractions and pleasures.”
― Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
― Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures
that solitude can afford you, because it is
at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.”
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that solitude can afford you, because it is
at least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.”
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“the pleasures of the damned
are limited to brief moments
of happiness:
like eyes in the look of a dog,
like a square of wax,
like a fire taking city hall,
the county,
the continent,
like fire taking the hair
of maidens and monsters;
and hawks buzzing in peach trees,
the sea running between their claws,
Time
drunk and damp,
everything burning,
everything wet,
everything fine.”
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are limited to brief moments
of happiness:
like eyes in the look of a dog,
like a square of wax,
like a fire taking city hall,
the county,
the continent,
like fire taking the hair
of maidens and monsters;
and hawks buzzing in peach trees,
the sea running between their claws,
Time
drunk and damp,
everything burning,
everything wet,
everything fine.”
―
“They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could be as well adjusted as Melinda's family, but he would have had to be medicated to pursue her list of pleasures.”
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“- Людям кажется, что они достигли желанных высот бытия, у них всё есть и теперь настала эра удовольствий... И всё отдётся в жертву удовольствиям: науки, открытия, смысл жизни. Любовь стала развлечением на час... Нормальные семьи настолько редки, что скоро их будут заносить в Красную книгу.
(Кантор - Ёжики - Матвею Радомиру)”
― Застава на Якорном поле. Крик петуха.
(Кантор - Ёжики - Матвею Радомиру)”
― Застава на Якорном поле. Крик петуха.
“[Italy is] A country where pleasure principle dominates.”
― My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City
― My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City
“The ignorant man passes through the world dead to all pleasures, save those of the senses.”
― Self-Help
― Self-Help
“Slavery of senses is the oldest form of slavery, and once we break this slavery, we'll conquer all inhumanity.”
― When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
― When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“I ... do not even know what I should conceive the good to be, if I eliminate the pleasures of taste, and eliminate the pleasures of sex, and eliminate the pleasures of listening, and eliminate the pleasant motions caused in our vision by a sensible form. ~ Epicurus”
― How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
― How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
“Self-gratification to the point of sustaining oneself is healthy, but beyond that, it's not only unhealthy, but downright inhuman.”
― When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
― When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation
“Pleasure is good in itself, and great pleasures are to be particularly valued, for they are signs of the goodness of God. The best pleasures are shared. Yet it is not necessary to our human flourishing that we have any of them in particular. The traditional Christian teaching is that the goodness of sexual union lies in marriage, but one who does not experience this good has no more a diminishment of human flourishing than a person who never jumps out of an airplane.
To speak broadly, all pleasures should be understood as ways of binding people together....”
― Friendship: The Heart of Being Human
To speak broadly, all pleasures should be understood as ways of binding people together....”
― Friendship: The Heart of Being Human
“The temperate person’s pleasures are durable because they are regular; and all their life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.”
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“My philosophy, if I had one, would be pretty simple. The taste of a pizza with a Coke, the sight of a well-made body, the feel of a mouth where it does the most good, the hearing of a piece of music I like, the smell of oil and leather and armpits.”
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“I had not, if truth be told, thought to wonder whether indeed a single lover might ever bring a full, rounded, complete satisfaction of all I had craved for a long time past, and that I imagined all lovers must crave.”
― The Erotic Notebooks
― The Erotic Notebooks
“This was what life was supposed to be, I thought, full of strange, previously unknown thrills, and unfamiliar pleasures. It was supposed to be always new; new and a little dangerous.”
― The Erotic Notebooks
― The Erotic Notebooks
“Only God can fill that abyss of longing that aches for love and purpose—not drugs, not sex, not money, no worldly attachments—just Jesus.”
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“After Peterloo, she had committed herself to her pleasures and pursuits, to bury the memories of that day. To feel again. To feel something that was different from the terror and agony that had consumed her. To forget him. Instinctively, she folded her arms around her middle and hugged herself hard, trying to ward off this pain. (Page 198)”
― A Wanton for All Seasons
― A Wanton for All Seasons
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