#pleasure

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food. ↗

— Georges Simenon

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Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy. ↗

— William Gilmore Simms

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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. ↗

— Mark Strand

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Daniel Day-Lewis and Sean Penn to me are the two best actors of all time. I'm just glad to have the pleasure to be in an era that they're acting while I'm acting. They're probably the best actors in my mind. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#best #daniel #era #glad #i

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there. ↗

— Mick Taylor

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