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“Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.”

Book Hours Memories Pleasure Spine Immersion

Author:Audrey Niffenegger

“Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.”

Would Be Nature Memories Pleasure Wise Plans Garden Plant Smell Nostalgia Scent Being Wise Nostalgic

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“Memory is a great deceiver: it embroiders until naught is left but the glory and the pleasure.”

Left Memories Pleasure Glory Deceiver

Author:Tobsha Learner

“I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.”

Doe Memories Pleasure Lovers Solitude Pursue Midst Distraction Charming Mistress

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.”

Pain Memories Forget Pleasure Break Constitution Vices Sober Drunkenness Intoxicated Bad Memories Getting Sober

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached this stage and reviews the pleasure of life will be grateful and glad that he has been an angler, for he will look back on days radiant with happiness, peaks of enjoyment that are no less bright because they are lit in memory by the light of a setting sun.”

“Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that I know about, certainly without the usual reason of unhappy memories. For many years that worried me, but then I discovered that the tales of former children are seldom to be trusted. Some people supply too many past victories or pleasures with which to comfort themselves, and other people cling to pains, real and imagined, to excuse what they have become.”

People Knows Years Children Real Reason Pain Past Faces Memories Pleasure Clear Childhood Victory Comfort Excuse Unhappy Tales Former Worried No Reason Usual Trusted Happy Memories

Author:Lillian Hellman

“The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.”

Giving Feels Moments Memories Pleasure Music Regret

Author:Madame de Stael

“To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.”

Humans Long Body Desire Passion Memories Pleasure Seasons Human Body

Book:Islands, the universe, home

Source: Islands, the universe, home

“An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.”

Memories Pleasure Animal Levels Sun Blood Taste Draws Cruelty Instant Leap Prey Marrow

Book:The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

Source: The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell

“Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.”

Ifs World Said Enjoy Memories Pleasure This World Drink Blessing Ears Sight Blessed Fruit Breathe Grass Scent Sage Fragrance Spices Beverages Aroma Before And After Reciting

Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.”

“The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.”

Giving Mind Ends Memories Pleasure Conditions Effects Constant Poetry Is Insistence

Author:Laura Riding

“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.”

Art Able Memories Pleasure Wine Extraordinary Works Of Art Divides Great Wine

Author:Robert B. Parker

“When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.”

Years Past Joy Time Memories Pleasure Half Stealing

Book:The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc. [With a Portrait.]

Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc. [With a Portrait.]

“The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.”

“I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past.”

Use Past Memories Pleasure Achievement Harmony Supreme Wander Witness Gathering Innate Folds Suspended

Book:Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951

Source: Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951