Famous quotes containing the words heart, asks and/or pleasure:
“He teaches me to set my heart on nothing. He detaches my mind from friends and relations; and I could watch on as brother, children, mother, and wife all died, and not care in the least.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)
““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)
“It is one of man’s curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)