#pleasures

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures. ↗

— Stanislaw Lem

#know #man #pleasures #torture #you

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#cannot #drawings #imagination #models #only

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#ascetic #considered #debilitating #dispense #man

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#different #less #old #old age #pleasures

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation. ↗

— Richard Powers

#doing #each #great #i #i am

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#burden #fitted #great #joys #last

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! ↗

— Confucius

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However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise. ↗

— Barbara Walters

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