"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."

Pleasure, Spontaneity

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"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."

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"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."

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C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure."

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"Buying is a profound pleasure."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction."

Michael Faraday, English Scientist

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Woody Allen, American Director

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"The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed."

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"The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough."

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"Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?"

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"In order to approximate those shapes and attitudes which are considered normal and desirable, both sexes deform themselves, justifying the process by referring to the primary, genetic difference between the sexes. But of forty-eight chromosomes only one is different: on this difference we base a complete separation of male and female, pretending as it were that all forty-eight were different."

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"On ladies' nights they watch frozen-faced while their men embrace and fool about commenting to each other that they are all overgrown boys. Of the love of fellows they know nothing. They cannot love each other in this easy, innocent, spontaneous way because they cannot love themselves."

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"Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is curtailed, more if they are married. How can marriage provide security? In any case a husband is a possession which can be lost or stolen and the abandoned wife of thirty odd with a couple of children is far more desolate and insecure in her responsibility than an unmarried woman with or without children ever could be."

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"Men are the enemy in much the same way that some crazed boy in uniform was the enemy of another like him in most respects except the uniform. One possible tactic is to try to get the uniforms off."

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"The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman. She is of neither sex, for she has herself no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others."

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"I got him' is nonsense in terms of love relationships, and so is 'I lost him'. If we could stop thinking in terms of capture, we would not have to fear the loosening of the captives' bonds and our failing beauty, and he would not have ulcers about being outsrtipped or belittled."

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