„As a reader I loathe introductions… Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.“

— Harper Lee

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„Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.“
— Anaïs Nin
„A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Man cannot live without joy. That is why one deprived of spiritual joys goes over to carnal pleasures.“
— Thomas Aquinas
„My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.“
— Vladimir Nabokov