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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.
Fulton J. Sheen
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Key
Mystery
Very
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Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
Christopher Marlowe
Fields
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Love
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud
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There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer
Cutting
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain.
P.B. Shelley
Tragedy
Delight
Affording
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He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness around him;
H.C. Andersen
How
Glad
Suffered
Sorrow
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Pleasures
Imagination
Drawings
Models
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I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.
René Descartes
Also
Discovery
Explained
Hope
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Robertson Davies
Common
Love
Occasional
Passion
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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
James Joyce
Art
Cannot
Irresponsibility
Part
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Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.
Jane Austen
Considerable
Enhanced
Foolish
Inconvenience
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Cannot
Half
One Half
Other
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Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.
Emile Durkheim
Man
Live
Impervious
Sadness
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I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
Vince Neil
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There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Marquis de Sade
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I still enjoy what I’m doing, which is building businesses. I don’t have any particular passion apart from my business and my family, and that gives me all the pleasure that I want.
Christoffel Wiese
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Building business
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Family
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
Alain de Botton
The pleasure
We derive
Journey
Dependent more
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Alexandre Dumas
You compare
The sorrow
Real life
Pleasure
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Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world
Alison Lurie
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Speech
Privileges
Pleasures
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Cicero
Old age
An honored
Great authority
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If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Cicero
Pursue good
With labor
Passes away
Good remains
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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
Samuel Richardson
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Mighty
Tears
Poor
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The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
Stendhal
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Love
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Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.
Giacomo Casanova
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Present
Future
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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains
Jeremy Bentham
Happiness
Create
Pleasure
Pains
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Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
John Piper
Grace
Pleasure
God
Power
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It is my wish to fill every moment of my time with some action of the mind which may contribute to the pleasure or the improvement of my fellow creatures.
John Quincy Adams
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Time
Mind
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O! one hour with God infinitely exceeds all the pleasures and delights of this lower world
Jonathan Edwards
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Pleasures
Delights
World
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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
Milan Kundera
Greater
Ambiguity
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