"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."

-- Charles Baudelaire

#Pleasure Quotes

“For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.”
“I think there is no mantra for success. One just has to be positive and keep doing good work. One must keep moving forward and not think much.”
“If you look closely you'll find all my lovers inscribed on my skin.”

Source : Jill Ciment (2007). “The Tattoo Artist: A Novel”, p.33, Vintage
“Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.”
“My message to businessmen of this country when they go abroad on business is that there is one thing above all they can take with them to stop them catching AIDS, and that is the wife.”

Source : Speech at Runcorn, 12 Feb. 1987, in Guardian 13 Feb. 1987
“I dream in fire but work in clay.”

Source : Arthur Machen (2018). “The Great God Pan and Other Horror Stories”, p.369, Oxford University Press
“With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.”
“Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.”

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