#pleasure

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends. ↗

— James Arness

#became #before #being #california #friends

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#hysteria #i #pleasure #terror

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #being #clothed #derive #due

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#having #innocence #language #like #long

I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly. ↗

— Pierre Bonnard

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Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure. ↗

— Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation. ↗

— Frances Burney

#easily #mind #naturally #pleasure #prone

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#perhaps #pleasure #relief