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Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Frédéric Chopin
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I get a fine, warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.
William Styron
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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Elsa Schiaparelli
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The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Raoul Vaneigem
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I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
But money gives me pleasure all the time.
Hilaire Belloc
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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit by which Nature herself is animated. It is the joy of the intellect which sees clearly into the Universe and which recreates it, with conscientious vision. Art is the most sublime mission of man, since it is the expression of thought seeking to understand the world and to make it understood.
Auguste Rodin
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
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All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
Evelyn Waugh
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The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
William Banting
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
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Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.
Georges Bataille
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To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain — no matter what — after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
Chauncey Wright
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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
Minna Antrim
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I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
James Naismith
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The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
Aaron Burr
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Italo Calvino
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
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