#pleasures

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

#doing #each #great #i #i am

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

— Samuel Richardson

#obtained #pleasures #poor #tears

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

— Michel de Montaigne

#gives #mind #our #pains #pleasures

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

— Thomas de Quincey

#deals #even #grave #laugh #long

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

#been #condemn #drive #history #men

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#greater #hear #hong #hong kong #kong

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#as far as #bored #desire #far #get

Of course, I also gave him the ineffable pleasures of pipe smoking. And no children, because when this character was created I did not yet have the four children I later had. I must add I also gave him a certain taste for food. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#also #because #certain #character #children

Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#change

What is love when it's not for dopamine? ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#humor #lust #pleasure #pleasures #true-love