#pleasures

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. ↗

— Orlando A. Battista

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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

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One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Our pleasures were simple - they included survival. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. ↗

— G. I. Gurdjieff

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If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

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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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No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

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