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quotes by topic Pleasure

" The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. "

Pain , Pleasure

" Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. "

Love , Pain , Pleasure

" The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. "

Pleasure , Joy

" That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. "

Edgar Allan Poe

Pleasure , Contemplation

" Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. "

Children , Love , Pleasure , Men , Conversation

" I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure. "

Career , Pleasure , Now , Focus , Interest

" Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure. "

Isabelle Adjani

Violence , Pleasure , Passion

" My pleasure was to copy, not to create. "

Pleasure

" People can have many different kinds of pleasures. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others "

People , Will , Pleasure

" Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. "

Pleasure , Pursuit , Humanity

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