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Full Idea
The feeling of pleasure lies precisely in the unsatisfaction of the will, in the way it is not yet satiated unless it has boundaries and resistances...
Gist of Idea
Pleasure needs dissatisfaction, boundaries and resistances
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Writings from Late Notebooks [1887], 11[75])
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Writings from the Late Notebooks', ed/tr. Bittner,Rüdiger [CUP 2003], p.213
A Reaction
This sounds like a 'higher' sort of pleasure, preferred by Nietzsche and Mill and clever chaps like that. Personally I like sunbathing and listening to music, and I float along very comfortably, like a cork on the stream of indulgence...
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