Jane Austen on pleasure
“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.”
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane AustenJane Austen How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
Jane AustenJane Austen The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human.
Jane AustenJane Austen Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane AustenJane Austen The enthusiasm of a woman’s love is even beyond the biographer’s.
Jane AustenJane Austen It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane AustenJane Austen I was quiet but I was not blind.
Jane AustenJane Austen Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.
Jane AustenJane Austen Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane AustenJane Austen She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.
Jane AustenJane Austen To love is to burn, to be on fire.
Jane AustenJane Austen Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
Jane AustenJane Austen The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane AustenJane Austen There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.
Jane AustenJane Austen Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.
Jane AustenJane Austen It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
NovalisNovalis Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
NovalisNovalis Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
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Honore de BalzacHonore de Balzac But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.
Said NursiSaid Nursi Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.
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