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“We eat junk because it's cheap and it lights up the pleasure centers of our brain. And we do drugs because it's an effective way to feel good or escape something.”

Book:Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

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“До того ж читати на вулиці чи в бібліотеці він не зміг би; процес читання, одна з найглибших насолод його життя, був неодмінно пов'язаний з кімнатою, де немає нікого іншого, де можна лягти на канапі, вільно підклавши під голову подушку й присунувши лампу близько, щоб проміння з-під абажура падало лише на книжку, щоб лише вона світилася в тихій навколишній сутіні, як алегоричний екран, оживлений контактом душі.”

Reading Pleasure задоволення читання

Author:Валер'ян Підмогильний

“Put it this way, George,” he suggested, when he had savoured the night air for a moment. “You traveling on business, or for pleasure in this thing? Which is it? Smiley’s reply was also slow in coming, and as indirect: “I was never conscious of pleasure,” he said. “Or perhaps I mean: of the distinction.”

Pleasure Business

Book:Smiley's People

Source: Smiley's People

“Feast is fun.”

Fun Pleasure Feast

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Party is pleasure.”

Pleasure Party Feast

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“The world lures people with its temptations and attractions, masking them with a cover of pleasure”

People World Pleasure Cover Temptations Masking Attractions Lures

Author:Sunday Adelaja

“Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or perceptual experience, are modes of exploration of the world. Aesthetic pleasures are like this. Aesthetic pleasures are contemplative - they involve studying an object OUTSIDE of the self, to which one is GIVING something (namely, attention and all that flows from it), and not TAKING, as in the pleasure that comes from drugs and drinks. Hence such pleasures are not addictive - there is no pathway to reward that can be short-circuited here, and a serotonin injection is not a cheap way of obtaining the experience of PARISFAL or THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.”

Pleasure Beauty Study Contemplation Aesthetics

Book:On Human Nature

Source: On Human Nature

“Perhaps all pleasure in only relief”

Pleasure Addiction Relief

Book:Junky

Source: Junky

“When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.”

Love Soul God Christian Joy Religion Pleasure Christianity Laughter Catholic Holy Spirit Catholicism Holy Trinity

Author:Meister Eckhart

“It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.”

Pleasure Poverty Witty Theft Begging

Book:The Soul of Man under Socialism

Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism

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