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“Man cannot spend all his time doing evil, and even in the company of pirates there must be some sweet moments on their sinister ship when you feel as if you were aboard a pleasure yacht.”

Book:The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

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“Among all the modes by which love is brought into being, among all the agents which disseminate that blessed bane, there are few so efficacious as this gust of feverish agitation that sweeps over us from time to time. For then the die is cast, the person whose company we enjoy at that moment is the person we shall henceforward love. It is not even necessary for that person to have attracted us, up till then, more than or even as much as others. All that was needed was that our predilection should become exclusive. And that condition is fulfilled when — in this moment of deprivation — the quest for the pleasures we enjoyed in his or her company is suddenly replaced by an anxious, torturing need, whose object is the person alone, an absurd, irrational need which the laws of this world make it impossible to satisfy and difficult to assuage — the insensate, agonising need to possess exclusively.”

Love Pleasure Possession Attraction

Book:Swann’s Way

Source: Swann’s Way

“The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.”

Pain Desire Pleasure Acceptance Satisfaction

Book:Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Source: Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something bad, the prerogative of the wicked. And when they allow themselves for a moment to enjoy it they endeavour to impersonate, to identify with, the wicked, and to make their partners do likewise, in order to gain the momentary illusion of having escaped beyond the control of their own gentle and scrupulous natures into the inhuman world of pleasure.”

Pleasure Sadism Sadists

Book:Swann’s Way

Source: Swann’s Way

“How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.”

Pleasure Benevolence Smiles Gladness Kind Heart

Author:Washington Irving

“I am an Angel of the Light. You should not be touching my sweet, innocent flesh this way. I am a Vessel of Purity, undefiled by the pleasures of the flesh.”

Sex Pleasure Angels

Book:The Claiming of Af, the Angel of Light

Source: The Claiming of Af, the Angel of Light

“I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last rereading (just now), I realize that time isn't the only thing that matters, time isn't the only source of terror. Pleasure can be terrifying too, and so can courage.”

Time Fear Pleasure Courage Ghosts

Book:Antwerp

Source: Antwerp

“Noelle slid up Rachel's body and turned her face with a gentle hand on her cheek. "Ace has to make his choice," she murmured, stroking Rachel's lips. "He doesn't get to lock you away from pleasure because he's all tangle up. You're made for joy.”

Joy Pleasure Choice Rachel Ace Beyond Jealousy

Book:Beyond Jealousy

Source: Beyond Jealousy

“Anahita mewed contentment as she snuggled even closer to Imamiah. She was enjoying her interactions with Imamiah very much. She could not understand why angels remained as spirit when this flesh was so much more pleasurable.”

Sex Pleasure Angel

Book:The Claiming of Anahita, the Submissive Angel of Fertility

Source: The Claiming of Anahita, the Submissive Angel of Fertility

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