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"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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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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"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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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
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"Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing."
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"A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream for ice cream. And believe it or not, I may not be your first. But I might be your lust! Give it a shot..."
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"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more."
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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love."
Friendship
"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."
Religion
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
Acting
"The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough."
Friendship
"Grace in women has more effect than beauty."
Beauty
"We had as lief not be as not be ourselves."
Identity
"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."
Motivation
"The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors."
People
"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."
Philosophy
"We must be doing something to be happy."
Happiness
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