#pleasure

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

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I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#am #any #character #crafty #deceived

I have always tried to live my life with enthusiasm and pleasure. ↗

— Joan Collins

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. ↗

— William Congreve

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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together. ↗

— Tom Glazer

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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

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