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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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Personal Development
"Pleasure, like the sparrow, never sits on any one branch too long."
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Personal Development
"Great sex is a natural drug."
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Personal Development
"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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Personal Development
"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
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"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."
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"Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
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"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?"
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years."
Politics
"Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness."
Mathematics
"The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water."
Art
"I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase."
Literature
"People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story."
People
"Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit."
Society
"A novel is a mirror carried along a main road."
Road
"All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few."
Fear
"Power, after love, is the first source of happiness."
Happiness
"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained."
Life
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