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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.
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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.
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Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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In aristocratic societies, rich people used to commission exquisite paintings for their walls.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
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Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
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The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
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The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.
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Those who have mastered etiquette, who are entirely, impeccably right, would seem to arrive at a point of exquisite dullness.
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When I read the 'Ugly Betty' pilot, I thought, 'Oh, this part's funny.' I said to my husband, 'I'm going to get it!' But based on what? All my exquisite comedic work in a Nike commercial?
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Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
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You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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