A Quote by Aphra Behn
Variety is the soul of pleasure.
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At the heart of our desires is eternal happiness without the slightest hint of misery. You could say that we are pleasure seekers; however, seeking pleasure from the objects of our five senses produces fleeting moments of pleasure whereas, pleasure of one's self, a soul, is eternal and ever-increasing pleasure.
Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation.
Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
The great source of pleasure is variety.
Even pleasure cloys without variety.
No pleasure lasts long unless there is variety in it.
I've always been a fan of or desired to or responded to variety. I like variety in life, so variety in work is a must.
When I talk about the pleasure principle, I don't say there is only one kind of pleasure, there are many kinds of pleasure. Some pleasure is difficult. It should be for the reader as well as the writer. But it has to be pleasure.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.
There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.
Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.
In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.
When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of nature,-or, more exactly, in the variety of our experience. Poetry, painting, the arts are the same search, in Coleridge's phrase, for unity in variety.
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