#pleasure

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself? ↗

— John Belushi

#give #i #many #much #myself

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#look #pleasure #sinners

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#cannot #doing #great pleasure #life #people

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#doing #greatest #greatest pleasure #life #people

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

#comparable #easy #finally #first #later

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

#hooked #passion #pleasure #soft #tender