“The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.”

“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.”

“Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there”

“While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed.”

“All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.”

“The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.”