"Perhaps all pleasure is only relief."

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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

Pleasure, Property

"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

Pleasure, Love, Life, Flowers, Joy

"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."

Stendhal, French Writer

Pleasure,

"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

Lord Chesterfield, British Statesman

Pleasure, Reading

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Pleasure,

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

Pleasure, Temptation

"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Pleasure, Felicity, Happiness, Human, Joy

"Not town can live peacefully, whatever its laws," Plato wrote, "when its citizens ... do nothing but feast and drink and tire themselves out in the cares of love."But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favorite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?"

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Pleasure, Life, Joy, Travel

"And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Pleasure, Food, Joy, Experience, Desire

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."

Democritus, Greek Philosopher

Pleasure, Moderation

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"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."

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"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."

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"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits."

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"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."

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"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."

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"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"

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"You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."

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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."

"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."

"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."

"I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure."

"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."

"And not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt."

"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."

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"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

"Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?"

"Smash the control images. Smash the control machine."

"Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war."

"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing."

"The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits."

"Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way."

"Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole."

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"

"You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal."