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So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together. ↗

— John Green

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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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It was a pleasure to burn. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it. ↗