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“Life is neither a party nor pleasure by purity.”

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“Reading is perhaps the greatest pleasure you will have in life; the one you will think of longest, and repent of least.”

Reading Pleasure Books Grateful No Regrets

Author:William Hazlitt

“When December comes, you say you wish the holidays were already over and done with and well behind us, and I think you pretend to hate happiness in order to make yourself believe that, if your life seems an unhappy one, at least you’re the one who chose it. As if you wanted to pretend you had some control over your own unhappiness. As if you wanted to give the impression that, if your life was too hard, you wanted it that way, out of disgust with pleasure, out of a loathing for joy.”

Happiness Pleasure Unhappiness

Book:Qui a tué mon père

Source: Qui a tué mon père

“and how can you be happy when you can find satisfaction at any moment? It is not in pleasure that happiness consists, it is in desire – it is in breaking the chains that hold back this desire;”

Happiness Desire Pleasure Durcet

Book:The 120 Days of Sodom

Source: The 120 Days of Sodom

“Nevertheless, there are many respects, in tiny and contemptible matters, where our curiosity is provoked every day. How often do we slip, who can count? How many times we initially act as if we put up with people telling idle tales in order not to offend the weak, but then gradually we find pleasure in listening. I now do not watch a dog chase a rabbit when this is happening at the circus. But if by chance I am passing when coursing occurs in the countryside, it distracts me perhaps indeed from thinking out some weighty matter. The hunt turns me to an interest in the sport, not enough to lead me to alter the direction of the beast I am riding, but shifting the inclination of my heart. Unless you had proved to me my infirmity and quickly admonished me either to take the sight as the start for some reflection enabling me to rise up to you or wholly to scorn and pass the matter by, I would be watching like an empty-headed fool. When I am sitting at home, a lizard catching flies or a spider entrapping them as they rush into its web often fascinates me. The problem is not made any different by the fact that the animals are small. The sight leads me on to praise you, the marvellous Creator and orderer of all things; but that was not how my attention first began. It is one thing to rise rapidly, another thing not to fall.”

Pleasure Curiosity Falling Augustine Appetites Fallenness

Book:Confessions

Source: Confessions

“There's this obsession with a man's erection and ejaculation, in that sex starts with his erection and ends with ejaculation. There is not much else in-between that is affirming for women or for the person receiving that penis.”

Sex Pleasure Consent Foreplay Ejaculation Erection

Book:Dr T: A Guide to Sexual Health and Pleasure

Source: Dr T: A Guide to Sexual Health and Pleasure

“I admired how she knew, well before I did, that the point of a child is not what you hope he will accomplish in your name but the pleasure that he will bring you, whatever form it comes in, even if it is a form that is barely recognisable as pleasure at all - and, more important, the pleasure that you will be privileged to bring him.”

Children Purpose Parent Pleasure Marriage Parenthood Child

Book:A Little Life

Source: A Little Life

“Evil acts make me hard – I find in evil a charm piquant enough to awaken every sensation of pleasure in me, and I give myself to evil for evil alone, and without any other interest than evil alone.”

Book:The 120 Days of Sodom

Source: The 120 Days of Sodom

“The pleasure of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.”

Book:Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

“The libido accepts all currencies, and vicarious pleasures have an over-the-counter exchange rate that is considered reliable enough to pass for real. No one ever went bankrupt borrowing someone else's pleasures. We go bankrupt when we want no one.”

Pleasure Lust Libido

Book:Find Me

Source: Find Me

“Now that the time that calls me to depart draws near, I think, or will not be too long, like one whom losses make acute and wise, I keep on wondering where I left the way that leads to a safe haven on the right: and on the one hand I am stung by shame and sorrow making me turn back; and on the other cannot break the habit of a pleasure grown so strong that now it dares to play for time with death.”

Book:Canzoniere

Source: Canzoniere