"There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast."
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"The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment."
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"The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace."
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"There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries."
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"Pleasure disappoints; possibility never."
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"But, if I sample this pleasure so prudently and circumspectly, it will no longer be a pleasure."
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"Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important."
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"The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us."
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"Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists."
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"You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal."
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"Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought."
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"Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it."
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"What has pleased and continues to please, is likely to please again; hence are derived the rules of art, and on this immovable foundation they must ever stand."
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"There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art."
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"How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?"
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"Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others."
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"A great pleasure in life is to do what they say you can't."
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"Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure."
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"With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase."
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"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it."
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