#pleasures

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give. ↗

— John Petit-Senn

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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. ↗

— Richard Powers

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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

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One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

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

— Karolina Kurkova

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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

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Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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