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"Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid."
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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?"
"Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
"The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
"The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He loves this food that contains no disgusting proofs of slain animals, a bloody slab of cow haunch, a hen's sinewy skeleton; these ghosts have been minced and destroyed and painlessly merged with the shapes of insensate vegetables, plump green bodies that invite his appetite's innocent gusto. Candy."
"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all; And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl."
"The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."
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