Mason Cooley Quotes About Pleasure
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If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
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I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.
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I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.
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Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.
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I gulp down my pleasures, chew over my miseries.
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The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.
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Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.
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Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
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Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.
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Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.
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Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.
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The limitations of pleasure cannot be overcome by more pleasure.
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The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.
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Addicts turn their pleasures into vengeful Gods.
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Work saves us from melancholy. Pleasure exposes us to it.
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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.
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Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.
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The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.
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The most reliable pleasure afforded by theater is the intermission.
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Contempt for others, like masturbation, is best as a secret pleasure.
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Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.
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