#pleasure

The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures, patrons, and acquaintances are his capital. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. ↗

— Jane Austen

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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish. ↗

— Balthus

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs. ↗

— Sam Abell

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The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. ↗

— Marcel Achard

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Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. ↗

— Arthur Adamov

#pleasure

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. ↗

— Scott Adams

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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

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