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“To become a 'good reader' one must give oneself over to a regime of concentrated pleasure. One does not set out to read a book a day (there is no necessary pleasure in that) but may spend two or three years on one book [. . .], read only portions of another, devour a third at a single sitting.”

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Book:The Novel: A Biography

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“I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not resolvable and were destined to cause unrelenting pain and distress; yet the pleasure was real, and I took it greedily.”

Pain Pleasure Technology Technophilia

Book:Consumed

Source: Consumed

“A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.”

Pleasure Knowledge Praise Know Yourself Worthlessness

Author:Kempis 1380-1471 Thomas

“She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.”

Book:The Sister of the Angels

Source: The Sister of the Angels

“One who hates to be driven through suffering has no right to expect the pleasure, for pleasure may give joy but the pain gives meaning; Meaningless Joy is like anchor-less Ship sailing in a shoreless sea”

Philosophy Pain Joy Suffering Pleasure

Author:Ajay Chandan

“You learn more about life and people in two hours of war than in four decades of peace. War is dirty, sure, war is senseless, but come on! Civilian life is also senseless, in its sameness and it's reasonableness and because it dulls the instincts. The truth that no one dares speak aloud is that war is a pleasure, The greatest pleasure there is, otherwise it would stop immediately. Once you've tasted it, it's like heroin: you want more. (...) The taste for war, real war, is as natural to man as taste for peace, it's idiotic to want to eliminate it by repeating virtuously that peace is good and war is evil. In fact it's like men and women, yin and yang: you need both.”

War Peace Pleasure

Author:Emmanuel carrere

“People lose their pleasures because they "don't care". Others misuse their treasures because they "care less". If you'll win, you must care!”

People Care Pleasure Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Caring Take Care Treasure Be Careful Win Careless Misuse Winners Treasures Pleasures I Don T Care

Book:Daily Drive 365

Source: Daily Drive 365

“It was a perfect moment and she was shocked to feel a tear roll slowly down her cheek. The warm droplet reached his finger where it lay against her skin, and even though it was far too dark to see anything clearly, she sensed that he was bringing it up to his mouth.”

Love Romance Joy Pleasure Tears

Book:Lover by Moonlight

Source: Lover by Moonlight

“God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!”

God Pain Pleasure Tree Lust Die Trees Go To Hell Seed Fruits Pains Urge Child Bearing

Book:Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

Source: Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

Author:Richard Bach

“It was wonderful to see the sparkle back in her eyes. He wanted to keep it there. For the first time in years he’d found himself actually caring about how someone else felt. He’d been spending so much time being a tough successful businessman that he’d almost forgotten how pleasurable it was to help make other people happy.”

Love Happiness Romance Pleasure Sweet Caring Help Soft

Book:Lie to me

Source: Lie to me