67 quotes found
“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do”
“... I experienced, suddenly, that special pleasure, which bore no resemblance to any other...”
“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 ...”
“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...”
“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”
“Follow pleasure and then will pleasure flee Flee pleasure and pleasure will follow thee.”
“We tire of those pleasures we take but never of those we give.”