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“I did not judge him any more than I did myself. He wanted pleasure, it seemed to me, as did everyone else, and if he went about finding pleasure in an unconventional way, what did that matter?”

Book:The Erotic Notebooks

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“I supposed to savour is to hold something in your mouth for more than a moment, to linger and draw out its details. Sometimes you are far too hungry to wait, and things get lost. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that I write things into remembrance. I like to linger long enough to name pleasurable things and seek out more.”

Joy Pleasure Lingering Savor Linger Savor The Moment Savouring

Book:Happy Hour

Source: Happy Hour

“Well, when do we act like sheep: when we act for the sake of the belly, or of our sex-organs, or at random, or in a filthy fashion, or without due consideration, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of sheep.”

Philosophy Pleasure Virtue Stoicism Stoic Ancient Greek Discourses

Book:Epictetus. The Discourses as Reported By Arrian. Vol. I. Books 1 and 2. With an English Translation By W. A. Oldfather

Source: Epictetus. The Discourses as Reported By Arrian. Vol. I. Books 1 and 2. With an English Translation By W. A. Oldfather

“And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be called marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife.”

Joy Pleasure Power Feminism

Book:Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

Source: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

“Pleasure does not teach you to be sensual, desire does.”

Pleasure Sensuality Sensual

Author:Lebo Grand

“For moral excellence is concerned with pleasures and pains; it is on account of pleasure that we do bad things, and on account of pain that we abstain from noble ones. Hence we ought to have been brought up in a particular way from our very youth, as Plato says, so as both to delight in and to be pained by the things that we ought; for this is the right education.”

Pleasure Virtue Morality Ethics Plato Temperance Aristotle

Book:Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Nicomachean Ethics

“Your sensuality can only be expanded by your insatiable thirst for MORENESS.”

Love Desire Passion Pleasure Relationship Quotes Sensuality Sensual Ecstasy Moreness

Author:Lebo Grand

“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of.”

Pleasure Power Feminism

Book:Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

Source: Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power

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