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... pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please forever . It is delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot day even though in a moment your skin is no longer sensitive to the coldness . White is no whiter if it lasts ...
... pleasure is none the less a pleasure because it does not please forever . It is delightful to plunge into cold water on a hot day even though in a moment your skin is no longer sensitive to the coldness . White is no whiter if it lasts ...
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... pleasure with which man can beguile his idleness . Since , inspired by Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to read Schopenhauer I have read pretty well all the most important works of the great classical philosophers . Though there is in ...
... pleasure with which man can beguile his idleness . Since , inspired by Kuno Fischer's lectures , I began to read Schopenhauer I have read pretty well all the most important works of the great classical philosophers . Though there is in ...
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... pleasure , however spiritual that pleasure may be , it is of no great consequence or at least of no more consequence than a dozen oysters and a pint of Montrachet . If it is a solace , that is well enough ; the world is full of ...
... pleasure , however spiritual that pleasure may be , it is of no great consequence or at least of no more consequence than a dozen oysters and a pint of Montrachet . If it is a solace , that is well enough ; the world is full of ...
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