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“It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.”

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“If you can play with your pain, every day would be a party.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience? Is it odd that I wish to witness you with new eyes so I may have the pleasure of falling for you all over again? I am grateful, so grateful, for knowing the meaning of your various sighs. For being the cause of your ecstatic cries. But, if only for a moment, I wish to let you fall out of my hands so that I may catch you again. You, my love, are the oddity. You are my exception.”

“Books were a dependable pleasure. I read more then than I ever was able to read again until now when I am too old to work much and am mostly alone.”

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Book:Hannah Coulter

Source: Hannah Coulter

“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep.”

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being. Who knows but that which seems omitted today, waits for tomorrow? Even your body knows its heritage and its rightful need and will not be deceived. And your body is the harp of your soul, And it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.”

Needs Soul Poetry Pleasure

Book:The Prophet

Source: The Prophet

“We exist only to exist.”

“All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.”

Age Pleasure Drink Tea Old Cup Cup Of Tea Warm Drink

Book:A Nice Cup Of Tea

Source: A Nice Cup Of Tea

“Bertha divined what an enormous wrong had been wrought against the world in that the longing for pleasure is placed in woman just as in man; and that with women that longing is a sin, demanding expiation, if the yearning for pleasure is not at the same time a yearning for motherhood.”

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Book:Vienna 1900: Games With Love And Death

Source: Vienna 1900: Games With Love And Death

“...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.”

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Book:Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

“For two thousand years or more man has been subjected to a systematic effort to transform him into an ascetic animal. He remains a pleasure-seeking animal.”

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Book:Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

Source: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History