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• She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five.

  Kevin Hearne

  Embarrassment, Five

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.415, Del Rey

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• The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Water, Design

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: 365 Daily Readings from his Classic Works”, HarperCollins UK

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• She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Real, Self, Hands

  "Anna Karenina".

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• The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Life Is, Obedience

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.266, Discovery House

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• I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Age, Mood

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Forever, What If

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• Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing.

  Vidya Balan

  Laughter, Hands, Sensual

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• As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

  Gary Snyder

  Ignorance, Animal, Solitude

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Truth, Book, Reading

  Esquire, Dec. 1934

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• I'm not an abstractionist. I'm not interested in the relationship of color or form or anything else. I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom, and so on.

  Mark Rothko

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

  Jack London

  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.

  Arthur Miller

  Spiritual, Children, Mind

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• such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

  Richard Paul Evans

  Pain, Fickle, Hours

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• There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

  James Frey

  Sweet, Pain, Men

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.

  Sarah Kane

  Mistake, Grief, Sometimes

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.195, A&C Black

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• Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Thinking, Differences, Psychotic

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• I don’t know how you can stand it. Over and over again, the same sadness—” He lifted her up. “The same ecstasy—” “The same fire that kills everything—” “The same passion that ignites it all again. You don’t know. You can’t remember how wonderful—” “I’ve seen it. I do know.

  Lauren Kate

  Passion, Sadness, Fire

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• The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Fire, Abiding, Poison

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Ada or Ardor”, p.286, Penguin UK

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• Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Joy, Sensual

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.77, Soho Press

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• Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Bored, Unwind, Ennui

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.50, Arcade Publishing

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• Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Love Is, Giving

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• Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot. Out of the roots of exploitation how can ecstasy be born?

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Roots, Togetherness

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• My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Giving, Goal

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2017

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• He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.

  Al-Ghazali

  Inspiration, Mean, Names

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• Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.

  E. B. White

  Reading, Mind, Produce

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.171, Cornell University Press

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