Heart Asks Pleasure

Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:

    “Can love be controlled by advice?
    Will Cupid our mothers obey?
    Though my heart were as frozen as ice,
    At his flame ‘twould have melted away.
    When he kissed me so closely he pressed,
    ‘Twas so sweet that I must have complied:
    So I thought it both safest and best
    To marry, for fear you should chide.”
    —John Gay (1685–1732)

    ““Must we burn Sade?” asks Mme de Beauvoir. Now that you mention it, why not? The world is littered with literature. And Sade teaches us little about human nature which we couldn’t gather from a few minutes of honest introspection.”
    —D.J. Enright (b. 1920)

    “The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom.”
    —Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (b. 1942)