“Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.”
Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress
(Lyrics from Justify My Love).
“I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another eating while reading.”
— Amanda Filipacchi, book Nude Men
first lines.
Nude Men (1993)
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