#pleasure

Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. ↗

— Christopher Marlowe

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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them. ↗

— Barbara McClintock

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You want to feel that you can do something creative that you love without being picked apart and mutilated for other people's pleasure. ↗

— Sienna Miller

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If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into. ↗

— Vaughn Monroe

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. ↗

— James Joyce

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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance. ↗

— Karen Kain

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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. ↗

— Alan Watts

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