#pleasure

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. ↗

— Stendhal

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There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my case that is as far as it goes. ↗

— William Trevor

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I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. ↗

— Fred Rogers

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If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. ↗

— Donald Trump

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The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ↗

— Marina Warner

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ↗

— Aristotle

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In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. ↗

— George Will

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Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. ↗

— William Jay

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Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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