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“Productivity language is an impediment to me, the pleasure in thinking and doing things well is such a deep-wired human pleasure… and it feels (to me) diluted when it’s linked to productivity.”

Book:Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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“A heart-to-heart conversation with your soulmate, not sex, is the most intimate experience of your life. While sex is a brief exchange of physical pleasures, conversation is a lifelong exchange of souls. After each conversation, you're no longer the same person you were before—you've shared a piece of your soul and received a part of hers in return.”

Soul Pain Sex Pleasure Conversation Experience Intimacy Secrets Soulmate Strangers

Author:Shahid Hussain Raja

“No pleasure is evil in itself, but how certain pleasures are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures”

Pain Evil Pleasure Greater Gain

Author:Epicurus

“You favor your warden over anyone else, when wardens aren’t meant to stand where he does beside you.”

Love Sex Pleasure

Book:The Emperor's Bone Palace

Source: The Emperor's Bone Palace

“It was one thing to be driven mad with pleasure. It was an entirely different and even more powerful thing to do the same to someone else.”

Pleasure

Book:The Basilisk of Star Manor: A Tempting Monsters Story

Source: The Basilisk of Star Manor: A Tempting Monsters Story

“I fell into a rhythm, and his animus melted with the pleasure I granted. He ceased his threat and became a man enjoying having his cock sucked by someone who knew what she was doing.”

Pleasure Hatred Threat Animus Oral Sex Blowjob Sucked

Book:Jarring Sex

Source: Jarring Sex

“Hence we always try to work away from the natural condition of any pleasure to that in which it is least natural, least redolent of its Maker, and least pleasurable. An ever increasing craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula.”

Pleasure Lust

Book:The Screwtape Letters

Source: The Screwtape Letters

“Ah, you English - you do take your pleasures sadly. - The Man from Montparnasse”

Pleasure Sadness English Englishness The English

Book:Penguin Parade: 1

Source: Penguin Parade: 1

“. . . what societies deem allowable as pleasure is constantly and unpredictably negotiated.”

Pleasure Society

Book:A History of the World in 100 Objects

Source: A History of the World in 100 Objects

“Many people who are enjoying themselves are not, for all that, enjoying life. Indeed, if they were enjoying life, they would have no need to enjoy themselves.”

Philosophy Pleasure Leisure Recreation

Book:Augustus: Invitation to Philosophy

Source: Augustus: Invitation to Philosophy

“If one day I become financially secure, so that I can freely write and publish, I know I'll miss this precarious life in which I hardly write and don't publish at all. I'll miss it not only because it will be a life, however mediocre, that I'll never have again, but also because every sort of life has a special quality and particular pleasure, and when we take up another life, even a better one, that particular pleasure isn't as good, that special quality is less special, until they fade away, and there's something missing.”

Life Writing Pleasure Publishing Financial Security

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

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