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Life is more fun if you play games.

A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity.

We shall enjoy itAs for him who findsfault, may sillinessand sorrow take him!

1. If your stomach disputes you lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. 2. Keep the juices flowi...

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The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo...

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The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did yo...

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I do feel that literature should be demystified. What I object to is what is happening in our era: l...

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I work hard, and I do good, and I’m going to enjoy myself. I’m not going to let you restrict me.

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

The superfluous is very necessary.

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed lik...

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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuou...

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How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passi...

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Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

All the things I really like to do are either immoral illegal or fattening.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co...

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There is a strong disposition in youth, from which some individuals never escape, to suppose that ev...

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Anthony PowellA Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

The true spirit of delight the exultation the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone...

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To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise...

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Every luxury must be paid for and everything is a luxury starting with being in the world.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to ma...

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Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family ...

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There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seem...

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One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the ...

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I'm an atheist, and I don't have any belief in an afterlife. You could say that I'm resigned to the ...

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To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, ...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure full...

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…Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an ex...

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All the great pleasures in life are silent.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable bu...

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Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum d...

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Hermann HesseBäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte

Leave off asking what tomorrow will bring, andwhatever days fortune will give, count themas profit.

What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.

...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person wh...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality

If there is anything that can bind the mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home and can ...

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It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of ...

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You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. Yo...

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But that's the whole aim of civilization: to make everything a source of enjoyment.

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

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There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.

Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers set chatting togeth...

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Life's a climb. But the view is great.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty t...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love th...

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Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.