#pleasures

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate. ↗

— John Green

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Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

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In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. ↗

— Lord Byron

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But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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One of the pleasures of being a Jew, I don't have to tell you, it allows you anti-Semitism. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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