Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.


Giacomo Casanova

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Be the flame, not the moth.
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I don't conquer, I submit.
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Marriage is the tomb of love
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The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.
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Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.
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Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over).
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It was a very sweet deal, ... But not for us. For them.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
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We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
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Her pain was very apparent, the torment she was in.
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Let the rain wash away all the pain of yesterday
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Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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She seemed dressed in all of me, stretched across my shame.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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He's a big, strong homebred, and he looks like Giacomo, too. Same sire, same color.
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What you said about the sweetest pain? That fits us.
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Pain is a funny thing, because pain will show us we’re wrong as well.
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It doesn't just have to be Disney and Bloomberg and BBC World News that are providers.
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This time next year you're going to see QuickTime in places you'd never expect to find it.
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Fire numbers and acres did not really tell the true story of what type of situation we really had.
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Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
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While putting thought in chains again --
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