Enjoy the rainbow while it lasts and don't chase it when it's gone.
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Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure.
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It was not evil that gave her the idea of pleasure, that seemed to her attractive; it was pleasure, rather, that seemed evil. And as, every time that she indulged in it, pleasure came to her attended by evil thoughts such as, ordinarily, had no place in her virtuous mind, she came at length to see in pleasure itself something diabolical, to identify it with Evil.