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"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
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"My senses are alive with pleasure and joy."
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"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."
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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"Great sex is a natural drug."
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"Pleasure, sex - I never did understand this - but a system like the real world has it's on glitches and bugs."
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"Buying is a profound pleasure."
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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always 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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"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
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"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."
Pleasure
"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay."
Government
"Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain."
Pain
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
Beauty
"Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."
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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."
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"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."
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"Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things."
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"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
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