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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said...more

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all se...more

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I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

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I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I...more

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LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite g...more

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JACKYour duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNONMy duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must ...more

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in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, ...more

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The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.

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I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

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It is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.