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"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
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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."
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"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."
"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
"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?"
"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."
"Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains."
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"Women are reputed never to be disgusted. The sad fact is that they often are, but not with men; following the lead of men, they are most often disgusted with themselves."
"I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover."
"Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life."
"Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe."
"The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion."
"Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism."
"English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men."
"All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women."
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