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Quotes About Pleasure

coffee must be 'hot as hell, black as sin, and sweet as love.
~ Lawrence Block
He went on, hurting her, torturing her. And then a very strange thing happened. Very strange. So strange she didn't understand it at first. So strange she couldn't think about it, couldn't even realize what it was. All she could do was react. The fire in her breasts and loins turned from pain to pleasure. The ache that dominated her entire being became an ache that craved immediate satisfaction. She didn't want to escape, not any more.
~ Lawrence Block
I threw myself down upon that small soft body, and her hand clutched me and tucked me home. She worked and strained in sweet agony beneath me. I brought her there. I heard her cry out and felt her quiver, and then I melted at last inside her in unutterable delight.
~ Lawrence Block
bordello tokens
~ Lawrence Block
El dolor mismo es el único elemento de la memoria; porque el placer termina en sí mismo
~ Lawrence Durrell
There are two positions available to us – either crime which renders us happy, or the noose, which prevents us from being unhappy.
~ Lawrence Durrell
The mind has great advantages over the body; however the body often furnishes little treats ... which offer the mind relief from sad thoughts.
~ Ninon de L'Enclos
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
~ Victor Hugo
You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.
~ Ice Cube
Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
~ Jonathan Swift
In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.
~ Heather Donahue
Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When given the choice, we'd all rather be happy now … even if that guarantees we'll all be sad later.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.
~ Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.
~ Norman Spinrad
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that gladdens the heart.
~ Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems.
~ Carl Pomerance
It was getting the results that made science worth doing; the accolades were a thin, secondary pleasure.
~ Gregory Benford
In Science the paramount appeal is to the Intellect-its purpose being instruction; in Art, the paramount appeal is to the Emotions-its purpose being pleasure.
~ George Henry Lewes
No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.
~ Samuel Johnson
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
~ Henry Rollins
I also ask you my friends not to condemn me entirely to the mill of mathematical calculations, and allow me time for philosophical speculations, my only pleasures.
~ Johannes Kepler
For chocolate's sake!
~ P. Nicole Green