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"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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"Joy is not a substitute for sex, sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy."
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"It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
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"It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver."
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"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid."
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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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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
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"I just don't want anyone messing around with my pure smoking pleasure."
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"There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward."
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"What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim."
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"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."
Man
"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time."
Money
"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."
Writing
"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."
Writing
"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."
Friendship
"Child! Do not throw this book about; refrain from the unholy pleasure of cutting all the pictures out."
Pleasure
"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."
Friendship
"Money gives me pleasure all the time."
Money
"I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
Travel
"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
Poetry
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