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It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pai

It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. – Arnold Bennett

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Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett

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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. – Cicero

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For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality. – Nathaniel Branden

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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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When will pleasure crash with regret? – Terri Guillemets

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