"It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position."
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"The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don’t know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening."
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"I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14."
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"Women are more susceptible to pain than to pleasure."
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"Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy."
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"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."
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"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmán, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing."
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"This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure."
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"Love! dearest, sweetest power! how much are we indebted to thee! How much superior are even thy miseries to the pleasures which arise from other sources!"
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"Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure."
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"Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'."
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"The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle."
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"I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since."
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"To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain."
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"Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!"
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"Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness."
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"I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town."
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"In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away"
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"Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure."
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"In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great."
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