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“As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.”

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Robert Bly, born on December 23, 1926, is a renowned American poet. His poetry is known for its profound emotion and rich imagination, which has had a profound impact on contemporary poetry. more

“I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.”

Knows Want Feels Wanted Heaven Pleasure Levels Streets Higher Glory Corners Tricks Stealing Ass Insanity Higher Level Getting High Euphoria Godlike Street Corners

Author:Anthony Kiedis

“The excess of pleasure is pain”

Pain Pleasure Excess

Author:Almeida Garrett

“People argue themselves out of their pleasures”

People Pleasure Arguing

Author:Jude Morgan

“Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.”

Humans Pleasure Human Nature Glory Shame Lust Excess Abyss Scorn

Author:Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

“The sweetest pleasure arises from difficulties overcome.”

Pleasure Overcoming Difficulty Arise Sweetest

Author:Publilius Syrus

“Pleasure represents a great good but also a grave danger.”

Pleasure Danger Graves

Book:The Bible Jesus Read: An Eight-session Exploration of the Old Testament Participant's Guide

Source: The Bible Jesus Read: An Eight-session Exploration of the Old Testament Participant's Guide

“Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.”

Way Young Joy Fun Sex Pleasure Building Conversation Sexuality Young Women Absent Building Relationships

Book:The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

“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.”

People Ifs Pleasure Available Appetite

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”

Joy Pleasure Cruelty

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.”

May Pleasure Our Lives Promise Pursuit Realization Haunting Alluring

Book:The Bible Jesus Read

Source: The Bible Jesus Read

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