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If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism. |
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- Marquis de Sade
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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. |
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- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing. |
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- Marquis de Sade
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It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. |
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- Jean de La Fontaine
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. |
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- Agnes Repplier
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It is not known precisely where angels dwell-whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. |
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- Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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It never pays to deal with the flyweights of the world. They take far too much pleasure in thwarting you at every turn. |
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- Sue Grafton
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Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take. |
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- Peter McWilliams
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure. |
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- W. Somerset Maugham
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. |
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- Kierkegaard
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