hedonism
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He now runs an award-winning wine shop in London's Mayfair, called Hedonism Wines, as well as a Michelin-starred restaurant, called Hide.
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2025
Hedonism is based on the idea that pleasure and pain are the two most fundamental emotions or states of being.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Hedonism, the wider culture insisted, had brought this plague down upon gay people; austerity, in the form of fatless macrobiotic diets and then-nascent American vegetarianism, could prevent it.
From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2020
Hedonism cut with a little bleakness seemed an interesting mix.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2018
"To despise all things, to make use of all things, in all things to follow pleasure only:" that is not the manner of the new, if it were the secret of the older Hedonism.
From Letters to Dead Authors by Lang, Andrew
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