#pleasure

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give. ↗

— Robert Mondavi

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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No pleasure has any savor for me without communication. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

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