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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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"Drink the nectar of love from the flowers of life."
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"Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it."
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"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
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"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing."
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"Joy is not a substitute for sex, sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy."
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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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"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
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"A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity."
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"... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other..."
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"I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me."
Achievement
"Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things."
Man
"I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired."
Night
"No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything."
Possibility
"I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture."
Time
"It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so."
War
"Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me."
Blood
"What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death."
Death
"I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion."
Fire
"Work is my salvation. It changes my moods."
Work
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