#pleasure

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain. ↗

— Marina Warner

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. ↗

— Simone Weil

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In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it. ↗

— George Will

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I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure. ↗

— Max Cannon

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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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Simply enjoy life and the great pleasures that come with it. ↗

— Karolina Kurkova

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty. ↗

— Helen Rowland

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The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#certain #death #face #give #off

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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