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“Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses.”

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“I had always been considered such a nonentity where human relations were concerned that the idea that I might have an influence, even a corrupting influence ... penetrated my heart with a fierce little sting of pleasure.”

Humans Heart Littles Ideas Might Pleasure Influence My Heart Concerned Relation Fierce Human Relations Nonentity

Book:The Rector of Justin: A Novel

Source: The Rector of Justin: A Novel

“Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about, to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do, sexual relations. As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality...”

People Thinking Sometimes Matter Reason Whole Facts Order Sex Pleasure Objects Relation Notion Sexuality Reason Why Mutual Theoretical Matter Of Fact Objections Procreation

Author:Alan Keyes

“The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual relation is different with every writer.”

Different Feelings Spiritual Pleasure Relation Translate Closeness Greatest Pleasures Merging

Author:Ventseslav Konstantinov

“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

“Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.”

“The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and colors he sees are just forms and colors, that all structures in which they play a role are purely subjective and have no relation whatsoever to any meaningful order or totality, that they simply and necessarily express nothing....No walk through the landscape is necessary any longer; and thus the very concept of landscape as experienced by a pedestrian becomes meaningless and arbitrary. Landscape deteriorates altogether into landscaping.”

Ifs Men Long Play Lasts Form Order Walks Pleasure Roles Color Concepts Relation Structure Convinced Meaningful Landscape Meaningless Subjective Arbitrary Totality Pedestrians Landscaping

Author:Max Horkheimer

“Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for the pleasure of it. I try out new ones. I have far too many pens - I don't know what to do with all of them! And yet, as soon as I see a new one, I start craving it. I cannot keep myself from buying them.”

Knows Writing Trying Action Pleasure Relation Instruments Buying Pens Gestures Craving Obsessive

Author:Roland Barthes

“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”

Ifs Men Writing Women Pleasure Secret Relation Friendly Why Not

Book:A Writer's Diary

Source: A Writer's Diary

“To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relationg to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can dring to Him who is complete in himself.”

Needs Made Interest Pleasure Existence Divine Creatures Relation Creator Arise Sovereign Completeness Incompleteness Creator God

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer