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“Sex is life: The act of creation in pleasure, the loss of oneself in another, the coming together of opposites in a temporary union of yin and yang, that creates something other than either. What is life if not this?”

Ifs Together Sex Loss Pleasure Creation Buddhism Opposites Unions Oneself Sexuality Temporary Coming Together What Is Life Yang Yin And Yang

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure.”

Found Process Pleasure Produce Opposites Transformation Injury Nonsense Suitable Jest Optional

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

“There are three things that are the motives of choice and three that are the motives of avoidance; namely, the noble, the expedient, and the pleasant, and their opposites, the base, the harmful, and the painful. Now in respect of all these the good man is likely to go right and the bad to go wrong, but especially in respect of pleasure; for pleasure is common to man with the lower animals, and also it is a concomitant of all the objects of choice, since both the noble and the expedient appear to us pleasant.”

Men Choices Three Pleasure Animal Common Objects Opposites Painful Noble Motive Pleasant Good Man Three Things Avoidance

Author:Aristotle

“We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite.”

Way Pain Pleasure Acting Quality Moral Virtue Opposites Relation Assuming Vices Best Way Pain And Pleasure Moral Virtues Nicomachean Ethics

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.”

People Men Mind Made Might Pleasure Behavior Opposites Fortune Mere Silly Innocent Rude Rudeness

Author:Richard Steele

“Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands - an inept teenage boy - these are the same girls who say they do not climax with a partner. It's the opposite with boys; they say because they can do that themselves, girls should perform oral sex.”

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Author:Peggy Orenstein

“Of course, we all inevitably work too hard, then we get burned out and have to spend the whole weekend in our pajamas, eating cereal straight out of the box and staring at the TV in a mild coma (which is the opposite of working, yes, but not exactly the same thing as pleasure).”

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Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”

Pain Pleasure Interesting Risk Willing Opposites Boring Bored Boredom Boring Life Jesus Shock

Author:Peter Kreeft

“You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.”

Matter Pleasure Opposites Tragic Nothing Matters

Book:The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea

“The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.”

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.”

Love Pain Love Is Pleasure Hell Sorrow Laughter Opposites Harmony Insanity Paradise Yearning Diamond Sweetness Torment Desirable Celestial Sorrowful

Author:Umberto Eco