Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Samuel Johnson
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
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Aristotle
Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.
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Jessica Valenti
It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should be the subject of so much hysteria and repression.
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A Dangerous Method
One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it makes pleasure possible for the rest of the world.
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Aldous Huxley
More Quotes By George Edward Herbert
Do well and right and let the world sink.
A cheerful look makes a dish a feast
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
