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“If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”
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“Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.215, U of Nebraska Press
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“I take no pleasure in the fact that the scientific predictions I've relayed to popular audiences turn out to be true.”
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“Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise.”
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“Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.”
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“Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.”
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“If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me...”
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“Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.”
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“The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.”
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“In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.”
Source : Hugh Maclennan (2009). “Each Man's Son”, p.310, New Canadian Library
