"We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good."
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"Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter."
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"A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know."
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"Every moment had its pleasure and its hope."
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"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties."
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"The greatest pleasure of life is love."
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"I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days."
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"1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis."
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"All pleasure in the world is a passing dream."
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"To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them."
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"No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not."
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"When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving."
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"One thing that I'm sure of is the real pleasure of life - it's not being known, it's not having your own jet plane, it's not having a mansion the pleasure is to learn something"
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"Happiness is unrepented pleasure."
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"The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"Do not let a day go by without taking some time for yourself - some time you spend in pure pleasure, as you see it."
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"Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times."
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"Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it."
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"People can come and see me, and I have the pleasure of being able to talk to them."
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