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• Nous sommes tous oblige  s, pour rendre la re  alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Indulge In, Bearable

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• When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.

  Mark Twain

  Jobs, Indulge In, Ignorant

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain”, p.4, Univ of California Press

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• I attacked those Western playwrights who use their influence and affluence to preach to the world the nihilistic doctrine that life is pointless and irrationally destructive, and that there is nothing we can do about it. Until everyone is fed, clothed, housed and taught, until human beings have equal leisure to contemplate the overwhelming fact of mortality, we should not (I argued) indulge in the luxury of "privileged despair."

  Kenneth Tynan

  Indulge In, Luxury, Despair

  "Conference at Edinburgh (1963)". "Tynan Right and Left: Plays, Films, People, Places and Events". Book by Kenneth Tynan, p. 146, 1967.

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• You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.

  Robert Moses

  Meat, Want, Way

  "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.

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• Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

  Anthony Daniels

  Indulge In, Behavior, All Things

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• Vengeance is a personal reaction. But not one that government can indulge in.

  Janet Reno

  Government, Indulge In, Vengeance

  1994 Opposing the death penalty. In the NewYorkTimes,15 May.

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• Collage-making, for me, is basically an act of painting, allowing me to indulge in an appetite for immediacy.

  Abe Ajay

  Indulge In, Painting, Immediacy

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• To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Knives, Madness, Knows

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.96, The Overlook Press

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• Nowhere does history indulge in repetitions so often or so uniformly as in Wall Street.

  Edwin Lefevre

  Wall, Indulge In, Doe

  Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Charles Dudley Warner (1878). “In the Wilderness”, p.26, Syracuse University Press

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• Marriage is not something that can be accomplished all at once; it has to be constantly reaccomplished. A couple must never indulge in idle tranquility with the remark: "The game is won; let's relax." The game is never won. The chances of life are such that anything is possible. Remember what the dangers are for both sexes in middle age. A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

  Andre Maurois

  Marriage, Sex, Couple

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichés about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be done to, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Betrayal, War

  "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.

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• Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my mind (and that of scientists whom I employ to prove it) that Work is a dangerous and destructive drug, and should be called by its right name, which is Fatigue.

  Robertson Davies

  Work, Names, People

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• His laughter echoed through my mind. I have a beautiful woman in my arms, and am taking her back to my home, where she and I will be alone and able to indulge whatever fantasies we choose. What is there not to enjoy?

  Katie MacAlister

  Beautiful, Laughter, Home

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• I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Funny, Pain, Memories

  Edgar Allan Poe, Simon Marsden (1988). “Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems”, Michael Joseph

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• Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders in al-Qaida. He was able to indulge in his hobbies... He was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes for release to the wider world.

  Peter Bergen

  Indulge In, Keys, Leader

  "The 'Manhunt' To Capture Osama Bin Laden". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. May 1, 2012.

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• Don't probe darkness to understand light. Don't dwell on sickness to be healthy. Don't indulge in thoughts of lack to have supply.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Light, Indulge In

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• Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

  Betty Shabazz

  Reality, People, Fantasy

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• I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

  Bayard Taylor

  Jerusalem, Emotion, Assuming

  Bayard Taylor (1862). “Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor ...”, p.85

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• Each time you indulge in the emotion of anger or the behavior of yelling at a loved one, you reinforce the neural connection and increase the likelihood that you'll do it again.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Indulge In, Yelling

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

  Jane Austen

  Reflection, Indulge In, Relief

  Jane Austen (1946). “PRIDE AND PREJUDICE”, p.128, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.

  Thomas Hardy

  Fate, Indulge In, Looks

  Thomas Hardy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)”, p.1758, Delphi Classics

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• There can be no brotherhood when some nations indulge in previously unheard of luxuries, while others struggle to stave off famine.

  Peter Singer

  Struggle, Indulge In, Luxury

  Peter Singer (2011). “The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress”, p.119, Princeton University Press

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• What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory; and found it more convenient to indulge his depraved appetites, and pay an exorbitant price for absolution, than listen to the suggestions of reason, and work out his own salvation: in a word, was not the separation of religion from morality the work of the priests...?

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Dark, Men, Work Out

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.72, Broadview Press

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• I spend more time in the kitchen than I have in the dining room, for obvious reasons, however, I just want to sit and indulge.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Kitchen, Dining, Want

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