[L]uxury always comes at someone else’s expense. One of the many advantages of civilization is that one doesn’t generally have to see that, if one doesn’t wish. You’re free to enjoy its benefits without troubling your conscience. (Ancillary Justice)
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Cesare Pavese
There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read–unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.
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E. Nesbit
You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.
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Debasish Mridha
A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.
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Alain De Botton
