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• And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory's rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?

  Emily Bronte

  Pain, Memories, Drinking

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.100, The Floating Press

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• In practice, US officials seem to know better than to indulge in the patriotic myth that our constitution is the greatest system of government ever devised.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Patriotic, Government, Practice

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• Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

  George Washington

  Heaven, Church, Christianity

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.262

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• The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

  Salman Rushdie

  Indulge In, Enemy, Important

  "Salman Rushdie Discusses The Role Of The Novel In The Era Of 24-Hour News In Talk At CU-Boulder" by Joe Rubino, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Thinking, Typewriters

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• If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Death, Drinking, Procrastination

  "On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1839)

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• I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wine

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• I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

  Dave Matthews

  Music, Artist, Self

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• I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Indulge In, Retreat, Film

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• I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Writing, Indulge In, People

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• Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

  Tom Hanks

  Fun, School, Scary

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• It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

  Adrian Grenier

  Selfish, Indulge In, Giving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

  Andrew Cohen

  Spiritual, Indulge In, Differences

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• There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

  Washington Irving

  Dream, Air, Mind

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.114, Penguin

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• It was a good hald minute before I looked over at Todd. his eyes were slightly foggy, like he was waking up- reluctantly- from a lascivious dream. "I didn't know they still made them like that," he said.... "Cool, tough, retro-manly. The kind who only cries if someone just ran over their dog. The big chested guy we can indulge our pathetic Daddy complexes with.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dream, Dog, Eye

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• Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  Aldous Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  1944 Time Must Have a Stop

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• You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.

  John Connolly

  Men, Evil

  John Connolly (2006). “The Book of Lost Things: A Novel”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ourselves enough to be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are... I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Running, Integrity, Joy

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• We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.

  Sarah Waters

  Names, Indulge Yourself, Literature

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.447, Penguin

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• The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it.

  Samuel Pepys

  Men, Knowing, Age

  Samuel Pepys (2012). “Diary of Samuel Pepys: Selected Passages”, p.143, Courier Corporation

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• The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon Earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Errors, Race, Long

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.237, Modern Library

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• When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.

  Ian Mckellen

  Real, Acting, Way

  "Interview with Sir Ian McKellen (Part 1 of 4)". Interview with BY Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. July 10, 2000.

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• My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.

  Pharrell Williams

  Indulge In, My Favorite, Dishes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Pride, Power

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.224

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• Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.

  Richelle Mead

  Dad, Writing, Half

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.138, Penguin

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