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" A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain. "

Marion Zimmer Bradley

" Abortions can be, and frequently are, traumatizing, as are other invasive surgeries performed to the sexual and internal organs. All or any of these 'violations' can cause loss of vitality, diminished capacity for erotic connection and pleasure, and other symptoms of trauma. "

Peter A. Levine

" According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good. "

" Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. "

John Stuart Mill

" A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. "

" Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman. "

Nancy Banks Smith

" All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain. "

John Stuart Mill

" A man of pleasure is a man of pains. "

" Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. "

" And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me. "

" Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it give pleasure?' "

Anthony Bourdain

" Any time I get to play Dick Casablancas is always a pleasure. "

" A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure. "

" A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument. "

Sholom Aleichem

" Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated. "

" As an Englishman, permit me now to say with what pleasure I learnt of the election of Professor Planck and Professor Stark to the Nobel Prizes for the years 1918 and 1919. "

Charles Glover Barkla

" As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. "

Margaret Cavendish

" As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. "

" Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind. "

" A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams. "

" A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. "

" Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand. "

" Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. "

Michael K. Powell

" Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided. "

" Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. "

Margaret Fuller

" Books can be a source of solace, but I see them mainly as a source of pleasure, personal as well as esthetic. "

" Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain. "

" Both Left and Right take pleasure in mildly persecuting those who fail to meet their civic ideals. "

" Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. "

William Feather

" Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. "

Maria Edgeworth

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