#pleasure

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum. ↗

— John Hume

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Diseases are the tax on pleasures. ↗

— John Ray

#pleasures #tax

I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. ↗

— John Green

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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

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Perhaps all pleasure is only relief. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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