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“Yogis are not against pleasure. It is just that they are unwilling to settle for little pleasures. They are greedy.”
“Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our B...”
“There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.”
“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to do what everyone else does.”
“This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.”
“I dont think Im made for any earthly kind of pleasure.”
“when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.”
“May your wants be few and your pleasures many.”
“To live without a body!”
“It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.”
“... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...”
“Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be infli...”
“Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?”
“Pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like th...”
“I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.”
“When he [Malevranche] happened to find Descartes' book entitled Man in a book shop on the rue Saint Jaques, he leafed through it, bought it and "read it with so much pleasure that he was forced at ...”
“Take your pleasure seriously.”
“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something bad, the prerogative of the wicked. And when they...”
“Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.”
“Why? What kind of man would pleasure his woman by hurting her.' Angus paced across the path. ''Tis a man's duty, nay, his privilege, to give his woman all the pleasure she can bear. She should be p...”
