#pleasures

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

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To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life. ↗

— David McCullough

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Pleasures flit by - they are only for yourself; work leaves a mark of long-lasting joy, work is for others. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

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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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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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. ↗

— Seneca

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