#pleasure

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#day #go #great #great pleasure #i

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#beauty #because #contains #deformities #disproportion

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#conception #consumes #down #escaping #every

There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#also #between #capital #double #each

To a man, sex is the ultimate expression of love. It is pure pleasure. But to a woman there exists something greater than pleasure - gestures of adoration. A gentle caress on the cheek, an attentive smile, a soft kiss while swept away in a slow dance, the whispered words, 'You're beautiful' - these are the tokens of love that women cherish. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#adoration #attention #love #lovers #pleasure

Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#book #child #cutting #out #pictures

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. ↗

— Susie Bright

#enormous #experience #finding #get #heard

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#being #intellectual #issues #knowing #me

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cats #completely #confront #cut #environmental

In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#love #matter #pleasure #precision #utmost