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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Max Eastman
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
Ovid, Metamorphoses
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Rebecca West
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.
Soren Kierkegaard
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Sydney J. Harris
We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.
Thomas Carlyle
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Burroughs
Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.
William Henley
Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.
 
 
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