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“His attention. Sweet and intense at the same time. Like a barley sugar I could untwist from its plastic and hold in my mouth. A flood of secret pleasure.”

Book:Waiting for the Flood

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“First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting. Philosophy wisdom (sagesse) is the philosophizer's quite personal affair. It must arise as His wisdom, as his self-acquired knowledge tending toward universality, a knowledge for which he can answer from the beginning, and at each step, by virtue of his own absolute insights.”

Philosophy Science Knowledge Epoch Phenomenology

Book:Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology

Source: Cartesian Meditations: An Introduction to Phenomenology

“Strongest pain often gives the deepest pleasure.”

Philosophy Pain Pleasure Debasish Mridha Mridha Debasish Gives Deepest Pleasure Strongest Pain

Author:Debasish Mridha

“both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...”

Love Life Pleasure Devotion

Book:Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity.”

Life Humanity Pleasure

Book:Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we can’t let ourselves feel our frustration – and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing to do – we can’t get a sense of what it is we might be wanting, and missing, of what might really give us pleasure.”

Want Desire Pleasure Frustration

Book:Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

Source: Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

“From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...”

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Book:On Solitude

Source: On Solitude

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