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«The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.»
«The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed»
«The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears»
Author: Stendhal | About: Love | Keywords: fears, in proportion to, pleasures, proportion
«Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.»
«Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.»
«The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?»
«When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality»
«To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other cheap and trivial»

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