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“That was a good straightforward point of view, no pretence that games were anything but an outlet for power and aggression; no stuff about their being enjoyable as such. You played a game to demonstrate that you did it better than someone else. If it came to that, I thought how few people do anything for its own sake, from making love to practising the arts.”

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement

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A Dance to the Music of Time: 3rd Movement

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Anthony Powell

Anthony Powell was an English novelist renowned for his twelve-volume series 'A Dance to the Music of Time', which offers a profound insight into British society and culture during the 20th century. more

“Whatever may be my activity in a given moment (whether I am composing, or whether I am making love . . .), I feel pleasure if there is an obstacle placed in my path but one not greater than my ability to overcome. If circumstances paralyze my energy, I suffer. From this point of view, pleasure and pain accompany every moment of our life, even if we try to disregard them.”

Pain Pleasure

Author:Alexander Scriabin

“God wants a people addicted to His pleasure, a people who serve Him for no other reason than the delight they take in Him. This is the very heart of worship. It is not self-centred. It is putting God at the very centre of self so that self cannot possibly be satisfied without Him.”

God Religion Spirituality Pleasure Addiction Satisfaction Delight Holy Spirit Ecstasy Addicted

Book:The Ecstasy of Loving God

Source: The Ecstasy of Loving God

“School children, who have enjoyed reading a romance or a detective thriller or a novel about terror and conquest, make the invariable mistake of studying literature in the college. They make the mistake of learning theory in place of art; they acquire impediments in their own enjoyment of the books by allowing a set of theories to govern their own reading.”