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“Los jesuitas eran muy astutos, porque no se negaban ningún placer: fumaban, bebían, comían y cogían como cualquier persona. Y hacían bien. Por cada sacerdote que amaba a una mujer, pensó Alfredo, había un niño a salvo…”

Book:Demonia

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“I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is on the whole preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two. When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers. It is a pleasure to write about what I do.”

Age Death Pleasure Dying Old Age Elderly Diminishment

Book:Essays After Eighty

Source: Essays After Eighty

“It's precisely in despair that you find the most intense pleasure, especially if you are already powerfully conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

Desire Pleasure Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Author:Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside and, startled into self-forgetfulness, I again tasted Joy. ... One thing, however, I learned, which has since saved me from many popular confusions of mind. I came to know by experience that it is not a disguise of sexual desire. ... I repeatedly followed that path - to the end. And at the end one found pleasure; which immediately resulted in the discovery that pleasure (whether that pleasure or any other) was not what you had been looking for. No moral question was involved; I was at this time as nearly nonmoral on that subject as a human creature can be. The frustration did not consist in finding a "lower" pleasure instead of a "higher." It was the irrelevance of the conclusion that marred it. ... You might as well offer a mutton chop to a man who is dying of thirst as offer sexual pleasure to the desire I am speaking of. ... Joy is not a substitute for sex; sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.”

Joy Pleasure

Book:Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Source: Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Love is a feeling and lovemaking is an art.”

Love Desire Passion Pleasure Sensuality Connection Tenderness Lovemaking Art Of Loving Eroticism

Author:Suman Pokhrel

“He had decades left in this second life. He didn't have to fill them with purpose - he could waste them doing nothing.”

Joy Pleasure Cozy Fantasy

Book:Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife

Source: Recipes for an Unexpected Afterlife

“Pleasure demands constant and repeated stimulation to be felt by the common mind. If it is a book, one must finish one and move on to the next; if it is music, one must listen to one and then start another. This is an endless cycle. And since the pleasure derived from such things is temporary, the only way to sustain it is to develop some form of addiction to them.”

Pleasure Ordinary Addiction Temporary Addict Dopamine Transience Cycle Repeat Loop

Author:Sov8840

“I don't want to offend anybody but I never did like fucking all that much. Like I always say the saw enjoys the wood more than the wood enjoys the saw--know what I mean?”

Sex Pleasure Enjoyment Having Sex Fucking

Book:The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

Source: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems

“According to Mederic-Louis-Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, mulâtresses affranchies circumvented laws requiring them to go barefoot by adorning themselves with flowers. They headed out to dances, at times matching their dress to that of “a good friend who is a confidante, the woman she cannot do without.” The emergence of sumptuary laws did not stop black femme presentation or intimacy.”

Pleasure Beauty Intimacy Femininity

Book:Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

Source: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

“do not fall in love with your suffering, never presume that your suffering is in itself a proof of your authenticity. Renunciation of pleasure can easily turn into pleasure of renunciation itself”

Suffering Pleasure Renunciation Self Indulgence Masochism Glorification

Author:Žižek, Slavoj

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