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Quote from Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet

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Post date May 10, 2022
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure – which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.

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Quote from Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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Post date April 16, 2022
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Sleep my little baby-ohSleep until you wakenWhen you wake you’ll see the worldIf I’m not mistaken…Kiss a loverDance a measure,Find your nameAnd buried treasure…Face your lifeIts pain, Its pleasure,Leave no path untaken.

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Quote from Kyle Idleman, Gods at War: Defeating the Idols that Battle for Your Heart

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Post date April 12, 2022
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God cannot and will not give us a sense of lasting pleasure apart from him, because it violates his purpose and our design. Psalm 34:8 reads, “Taste and see that the LORD is good.

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Mary Balogh Then Comes Seduction

Quote from Mary Balogh, Then Comes Seduction

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Post date March 29, 2022
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He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language – happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more… well, pleasant.

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Quote from Frederick Lewis Donaldson

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Post date March 24, 2022
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The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

W. Somerset Maugham

Quote from W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

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Post date March 22, 2022
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

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Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare

Quote from William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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Post date February 26, 2022
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Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’ But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please me.

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Quote from Marcellus Emants, A Posthumous Confession

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Post date February 18, 2022
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Only a fool can be happy. For happiness consists of two contradictory elements: contentment and pleasure. Enjoy pleasure and you have no contentment; be content and you have no pleasure. For this reason happiness is conceivable only for those who enjoy themselves without thinking that they will always want more and thus be discontented, or for those who are content without thinking that they have no pleasure. Whoever reflects can never be happy, unless he is a fanatic and thus blinded…thus exercising control over his intelligence with his feelings, instead of the other way round