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Beyond a certain point – which most of the world is still far from having reached – the accumulation of wealth offers only substitute pleasures for the real losses to human relations that it exacts.
In this great metropolis, many people live among mostly their own but share the pleasures as well as the miseries of public spaces.
Still, for him, there existed an antidote to this "natural" inequality -- education -- which would lift people above their "lower" pleasures.
Quite the contrary: these resources are much more efficiently and fairly used to ensure that everybody has access to the opportunities and pleasures of social life.
The pleasures of a bachelor's life, enjoyed by him on his previous travels abroad, were not to be thought of now, for one attempt of that kind had produced in Anna an unexpected fit of depression quite disproportionate to the offence of a late supper with some acquaintances.
The Countess Lydia Ivanovna knew very well that it was one of his greatest pleasures, though he would never confess it.
Already he fancied himself a deceived husband, necessary to his wife and her lover only to provide them with the comforts of life and with pleasures...
She would have concealed it; but her chief feeling would have been joy that I am punished for the pleasures she has envied me.
The only pleasures were to get drunk and to get a child with one's wife; then the beer swelled the belly, and the child, later on, left you to go to the dogs.
It was beginning to see life, the sweetness of stolen pleasures; and when he entered, he put his hand on the door-handle with a joy almost sensual.
She leant her head against the walls to weep; she envied lives of stir; longed for masked balls, for violent pleasures, with all the wildness that she did not know, but that these must surely yield.
A man, at least, is free; he may travel over passions and over countries, overcome obstacles, taste of the most far-away pleasures.
She is so finiky about her pleasures; and, besides, she has a mania for prawns."
The humiliation of feeling herself weak was turning to rancour, tempered by their voluptuous pleasures.
And immediately Emma's beauty, with all the pleasures of their love, came back to him.
At last, bored and weary, Rodolphe took back the box to the cupboard, saying to himself, "What a lot of rubbish!"Which summed up his opinion; for pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall.
One ought not to accustom oneself to impossible pleasures when there are a thousand demands upon one."
He did not know what recreation of her whole being drove her more and more to plunge into the pleasures of life.
Their little illnesses, their sorrows, their little pleasures absorbed the whole sensibility of this human soul, which had never, in the whole of her life, adored anyone save God, while she was at the Sacred Heart in Besancon.
Beneath our more sombre skies, a penniless young man, who is ambitious only because the refinement of his nature puts him in need of some of those pleasures which money provides, is in daily contact with a woman of thirty who is sincerely virtuous, occupied with her children, and never looks to novels for examples of conduct.
I take the greatest interest in the fortunes of my house, I may carry it far; I look after my pleasures, and that is what must come before everything else, at least in my eyes,' he went on, noticing the astonishment in the eyes of the abbe Pirard.
Although a man of sense, the abbe was amazed to see an old man talking so openly of his pleasures.
All his pleasures were forms of precaution; he practised with his pistol every day, and was numbered among the more promising pupils of the most famous fencing masters.
All the pleasures in life are as nothing to him, he can feel only the sharp points of the despair that is rending him.
Everything that the most elegant civilisation can offer in the way of keen pleasures, was it not all combined to one's heart's content in Mademoiselle de La Mole?'These memories of past happiness took possession of Julien, and rapidly undid all the work of reason.
CHAPTER 22 The DiscussionThe republic--for every person today willing to sacrifice all to the common good, there are thousands and millions who know only their own pleasures and their vanity.
'Plenty of linen, oils, pomades and fripperies; he is a young man of the world, occupied with his own pleasures.
Its enchanting pleasures, its sweet delights are alone beyond thy sphere.
These pleasures of reputation and petty vanity are nothing to me.
- PLEASURES OF "CAMPING-OUT," ON FINE NIGHTS.
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