“Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.”

— William S. Burroughs

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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, a… 1914–1997

Roger Zelazny Knight of Shadows

Source: Knight of Shadows

“Often have I sighed to measure
By myself a lonely pleasure,—
Sighed to think I read a book,
Only read, perhaps, by me.”

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet

To the Small Celandine.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
Will be a pleasure.”
Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

Virgil Aeneid

Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book I, Line 203 (tr. Robert Fitzgerald)

“There, all is order and beauty only,
Splendor, peace, and pleasure.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Là, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté,
Luxe, calme et volupté.
"L'Invitation au Voyage" [Invitation to the Voyage] http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Invitation_au_voyage_%28Les_Fleurs_du_mal%29
Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857)

“There is only one pleasure—that of being alive. All the rest is misery.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

This Business of Living (1935-1950)

“All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what everybody does.”

Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet

Ibid., p. 265
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Todo o prazer é um vício, porque buscar o prazer é o que todos fazem na vida, e o único vício negro é fazer o que toda a gente faz.