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The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
Walt Whitman
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The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.
Joseph Campbell
6.
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.
Rajneesh
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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jean Genet
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I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
Anais Nin
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something
Rita Dove
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Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Epictetus
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Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Bill Watterson
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Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.
J. Oswald Sanders
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The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil
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Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer
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I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.
Andrew Solomon
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Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.
Emily Dickinson
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An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.
Mark Twain
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
19.
Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?
Sergei Dovlatov
20.
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
Criss Jami
21.
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps,
by all those that still live.
William Butler Yeats
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Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.
Tom Robbins
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
Bette Davis
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When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for.
Claudio Arrau
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Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
Emile M. Cioran
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One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.
Joel Salatin
29.
You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.
Deepak Chopra
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We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.
Georges Bataille
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Oh! If only we were naked now, and free to watch our protruding parts align; To whisper - both of us - in ecstasy!
Arthur Rimbaud
32.
Now I love the act of creating a new image. When everything comes together, it feels like ecstasy. It's like a climax.
Mario Sorrenti
33.
I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.
Wavy Gravy
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Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces.
Martha Graham
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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles
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Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
James Broughton
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One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.
Dan Savage
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
Mark Twain
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I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.
Georges Bataille
42.
Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.
Paullina Simons
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
Terence McKenna
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There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together.
Jean Baudrillard
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I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.
Sharon Shinn
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She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.
Kevin Hearne
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Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
Emily Dickinson