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  1. Robert Greene _ Mastery

    It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
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  2. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Tiramisu for desert.
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  3. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    ... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity."
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  4. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    ... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...
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  5. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Generally speaking, though, Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure. Ours is an entertainment-seeking nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one.
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  6. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband's voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up everything for? This is why you gutted our entire life together? For a few stalks of asparagus and an Italian newspaper? I replied aloud to him: "First of all," I said, "I'm very sorry, but this isn't your business anymore. And secondly, to answer you question...yes.
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  7. Angela Carter _ The Sadeian Woman: And the

    For Sade, all tenderness is false, a deceit, a trap; all pleasure contains within itself the seeds of atrocities; all beds are minefields.
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  8. Voltaire _ Candide

    But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.''You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.
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  9. David Gemmell _ Wolf in Shadow

    I don't want eternal life. I want a little joy, a large amount of pleasure, and a swift death once I lose the appetite for either.
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  10. Dante Alighieri _ Inferno

    It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. {Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.}
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  11. John le Carré _ Smiley's People

    Put it this way, George," he suggested, when he had savoured the night air for a moment. "You traveling on business, or for pleasure in this thing? Which is it?Smiley's reply was also slow in coming, and as indirect: "I was never conscious of pleasure," he said. "Or perhaps I mean: of the distinction.
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  12. Christopher Marlowe _ The Complete Plays and Poems

    Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove
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