It is as though our dreams were watching us and directing our lives with external vigour whilst we simply enact their pleasures passively, in a swoon.
How sad for those who cannot enjoy what are after all prime pleasures of daily life, and perhaps for some the only ones, eating and drinking.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all...
If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures.
Some things are too good. They make everything else worthless.
It is possible for a writer to make, or remake at least, for a reader, the primary pleasures of eating, or drinking, or looking on, or sex. Novels have their obligatory tour-de-force, the green-flecke...
After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little...
Let go of temporary pleasures for a permanent joy.
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharp...
They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. Szabo often wished that he could...
Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?
Success will bring recognition, money and all other pleasures of life
For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
What is love when it's not for dopamine?
The World has not evolved into what it is today to specifically meet my pleasures.
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