"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."

Pleasure, Spontaneity

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"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."

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"Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England."

Zola Budd, South African Athlete

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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

C. S. Lewis, British 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 wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing."

Francis Quarles, English Poet

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"It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses."

Barbara McClintock, American Scientist

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"My pleasure was to copy, not to create."

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"Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

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"The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading."

Vernon Lee, British Author

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"Buying is a profound pleasure."

Simone de Beauvoir, French Writer

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"Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked."

Alex Cox, British Director

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"The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement."

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"We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'."

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"Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution."

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"Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating."

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"Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle, the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them."

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"In the popular imagination hairiness is like furriness, an index of bestiality, and as such an indication of aggressive sexuality. Men cultivate it, just as they are encouraged to develop competitive and aggressive instincts, women suppress it, just as they suppress all the aspects of their vigour and libido."

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"Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it."

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"Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world."

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"The problem of the survival of humanity is not a matter of ensuring the birth of future generations but of limiting it. The immediate danger to humanity is that of total annihilation within a generation or two, not the failure of mankind to breed. A woman seeking alternative modes of life is no longer morally bound to pay her debt to nature."

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