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"Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy."
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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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"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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"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."
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"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."
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"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
Philosophy
"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."
History
"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
Love
"The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity."
God
"Saints need sinners."
Religion
"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
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"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
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"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."
Faith
"And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment."
Environment
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