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"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."
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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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"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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"If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
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"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid."
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"Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all."
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"Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to."
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"The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis."
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