“It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.” GivingImaginationSimplePleasureBeautyDoubtHorrorExtraordinaryNo DoubtProvenExceptionalUglinessSimple ThingsFieryExtraordinary ThingsNastiness Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings
“... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.” WorldFirstsWarDonePleasureHistoryExtraordinaryWar Of The WorldsCivil WarWorld War ICoincidenceRepetitionSecond World WarFirst World WarBalkansSpanish Civil War Book:Wars I have seen Source: Wars I have seen
“The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.” DifferencesPleasureInspiringOrdinaryExtraordinaryOrdinary LifeExtraordinary ThingsOrdinary ThingsExtraordinary Life Author:Veronique Vienne
“There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.” ArtAbleMemoriesPleasureWineExtraordinaryWorks Of ArtDividesGreat Wine Author:Robert B. Parker
“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.” WorldLifeHumansArtSometimesHardSeemsEarthSpiritualPleasurePracticePathAchieveRocksMaterialsHard WorkWallBalanceGardenLaborStonesExtraordinaryExtremesPeacefulHuman LifeRoughDivisionDividedFragileDelicateAccordReconcileFinding PeaceSpiritual PracticeMaterial WorldPolarizationArtificialityMagical PlacesDisenchanted Author:Thomas Moore
“Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.” PleasureEffortExtraordinaryClimbingGreat Effort Author:Jerzy Kukuczka