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“Why do people want to drain your energy? So they can journey to other worlds after death, where pleasures are a thousandfold. It is a fast game. Human beings are powerful and skillful.”

People World Want Humans Games Energy Human Beings Pleasure Powerful Journey After Death Other Worlds Drains Skillful

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There is a peculiar pleasure in riding out into the unknown. A pleasure which no second journey on the same trail ever affords.”

Pleasure Journey Travel Peculiar Riding Trails

Author:Edith Durham

“The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.”

Ends Pleasure Rooms Journey Return Seeking Variety Cells Cycles Over It Locked Thrill Hunters Spectators Starting Over Sexually Repetitive Promiscuous

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Along the road of life are many pleasure resorts, but think not that by tarrying in them you will take more days to the journey. The day of your arrival is already recorded.”

Thinking Life Pleasure Journey Resorts Arrivals

Book:Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

Source: Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

“[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.”

Should Desire Individual Pleasure Interesting Views Steps Knowing Journey Objects Degrees Appearance Drawing Employed Traveller

Book:Writings and Drawings

Source: Writings and Drawings

“We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.”

Ifs Wells Persons Happens Challenges Pleasure Journey Neighbor Sensitive Greatest Pleasures

Author:Fred Rogers

“Things temporal are sweeter in the expectation, things eternal are sweeter in the fruition; the first shames thy hope, the second crowns it; it is a vain journey, whose end affords less pleasure than the way.”

Way Firsts Ends Pleasure Journey Eternal Expectations Shame Vain Anticipation Crowns Fruition

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“A pen and a notebook and a reasonable amount of discrimination will change a journey from a mere annual into a perennial, its pleasures and pains renewable at will.”

Pain Pleasure Journey Amount Mere Discrimination Reasonable Pens Notebook Annuals Pain And Pleasure

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Vacation cruises are advertised as luxurious journeys to exotic places, but a chief pleasure is the reading of books ... . On steamer chairs topside or poolside, in the lounges, everywhere you see men and women with their noses in books, devouring them for hours.”

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Author:Garrison Keillor