“There is so much a man can tell you,
So much he can say.
You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain”
"Kiss from a Rose"
Seal (1994)
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British singer-songwriter 1963Related quotes

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Anderson and Koval, p. 186; as quoted on the English Wikipedia
posthumous published

“I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?”
Quoted in: Robert Andrews (2003), The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations. p. 144

Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II
Context: Yes, I dreamed a dream, my dream of the third of November. They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? If once one has recognized the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be, whether you are asleep or awake. Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!
“My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.”
Source: Devil in Winter

“I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.”
5 February 1750
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl