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  Pleasure Quotes - Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures   “Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.” ― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park   “He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol   “The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.” ― Casanova, The Story of My Life   “It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns” ― D.A.F. Marquis de Sade   “The ...

  Pleasure Quotes - A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered   “When, therefore, we maintain that pleasure is the end, we do not mean the pleasures of profligates and those that consist in sensuality, as is supposed by some who are either ignorant or disagree with us or do not understand, but freedom from pain in the body and from trouble in the mind. For it is not continuous drinkings and revelings, nor the satisfaction of lusts, nor the enjoyment of fish and other luxuries of the wealthy table, which produce a pleasant life, but sober reasoning, searching out the motives for all choice and avoidance, and banishing mere opinions, to which are due the greatest disturbance of the spirit.” ― Epicurus   “Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.” ― Anne Rice   “Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Book...

  Pleasure Quotes - Take your pleasure seriously   “Pleasure, I remind myself, is inseparable from its lawfully wedded mate, pain.” ― T.C. Boyle, A Friend of the Earth   “The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.” ― Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures   “The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading” ― Vladimir Nabokov   “Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray   “Take your pleasure seriously.” ― Charles Eames   “Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy p...

  Pleasure Quotes - Come live with me and be my Love   “The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life.” ― Wilhelm Reich   “A child's reading is guided by pleasure, but his pleasure is undifferentiated; he cannot distinguish, for example, between aesthetic pleasure and the pleasures of learning or daydreaming. In adolescence we realize that there are different kinds of pleasure, some of which cannot be enjoyed simultaneously, but we need help from others in defining them. Whether it be a matter of taste in food or taste in literature, the adolescent looks for a mentor in whose authority he can believe. He eats or reads what his mentor recommends and, inevitably, there are occasions when he has to deceive himself a little; he has to pretend that he enjoys olives or War and Peace a little more than he actually does. Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the proc...

  Pleasure Quotes - Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy   “He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall.” ― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus   “I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I make myself submit to my adversary’s force of reason, than I am pleased with the victory I obtain over him through his weakness.” ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays   “I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.” ― Charles Baudelaire   “When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy   “Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.” ― Eliz...