#pleasure

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being. ↗

— Mary Astell

#being #beloved #best #cannot #certainly

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#fragmented #get #gets #gives #hands

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

#i #love #me #money #more

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

— Pierre Bonnard

#express #paint #pleasure #strongly #your

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#feels #general #give #must #necessary

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#momentary #pleasure #position #ridiculous #sex

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. ↗

— Truman Capote

#greatest #greatest pleasure #inner #make #me