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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society tha

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. – Rebecca West

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Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. – Rebecca West

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Music
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Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a persons mind. – Rebecca West

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communication
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Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. – Rebecca West

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Other Quotes from
Pleasure
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Human beings need pleasure the way they need vitamins. – Lionel Tiger

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Pleasure

When will pleasure crash with regret? – Terri Guillemets

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Hark ye of little pleasure! See your way clearly as your destiny reveals its truth! Seek not completion lest your touch be forever dismissed! – My wordfriend, the always conversationally frisky Tim Irwin, 2014

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Pleasure

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. – Honore de Balzac

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Pleasure

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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you. – Wayne Dyer

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They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there. – Diana Ross

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Weve seen some insane signs: Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, I will do unspeakable things. I thought that was very interesting – and mildly terrifying! – Josh Hutcherson

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At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. – Princess Masako

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Experience