#pleas

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#broken #caresses #complete #demands #kind

Buying is a profound pleasure. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#pleasure #profound

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. ↗

— Tony Benn

#life #lifetime #moment #moments #most

But I owe it to the subject to say, that it has long afforded me what philosophy is so often thought, and made, barren of - the fun of discovery, the pleasures of co-operation, and the satisfaction of reaching agreement. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#agreement #barren #co-operation #discovery #fun

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#cannot #doing #great pleasure #life #people

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#doing #greatest #greatest pleasure #life #people

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#cars #children #deaths #elegant #fear

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all. ↗

— Arthur Adamov

#pleasure

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. ↗

— Scott Adams

#choose #free #free will #greatest #greatest pleasure

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#expressed #foreign #foreign policy #generosity #i