Émile Zola: Those harlot eyes were never lowered; they courted pleasure, a pleasure without fatigue which one summons and receives.

Those harlot eyes were never lowered; they courted pleasure, a pleasure without — Émile Zola

Those harlot eyes were never lowered; they courted pleasure, a pleasure without fatigue which one summons and receives.

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Why rave ye, babblers, so -- ye lords of popular wonder? — Alexander Pushkin
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. — Voltaire
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith. — Marcus Aurelius
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. — Jane Austen
Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the gardens of scholars. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
Away, thou strange justifier of thyself, to be wiser than thou wert, by the even — Ben Jonson
We were at the age when a friend's conversation seems like oneself talking, when — Cesare Pavese