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• Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Despair, Literature

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• Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.

  David Richo

  Love, Long, Matter

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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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

  Caring, Knowing, Euphoria

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• Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.

  Margery Allingham

  Sex, Heart, Beats

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• Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

  Philip Larkin

  Sex, Mean, Moments

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• Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

  Bill Watterson

  Demand, Enough, Euphoria

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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• The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Giving, Receiving, Needs

  Khalil Gibran, “Pleasure XXIV”

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• There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is to know all. It is unlimited silence but not dead, it is alive with songs of its own, with dances of its own.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Space, Silence

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason.

  Anais Nin

  Feelings, Stronger, Reason

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• I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

  Anais Nin

  Letting Go, Thirsty, Shackles

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• Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

  Walter Pater

  Passion, Giving, Sorrow

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Technology, Thinking, Views

  "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramon Jimenez (p. 231), 1957.

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• Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Buddhism, Joy

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• That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

  Bill Watterson

  Happiness, Being Happy, Differences

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

  Terence McKenna

  Joy, Emotion, Sometimes

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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.

  Jack London

  Alive, Paradox, Mark

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

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• Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

  John Updike

  Life, Experience, Doe

  "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

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• Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.

  Teresa of Avila

  Real, Moving, Right Direction

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• I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Letting Go

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• The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Theatre, Noble, Audience

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• Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Wall, Freedom

  "The Resurgence And Allure Of Anais Nin" by Diana M. Raab, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 12, 2016.

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• Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Space

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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

  Men, Fellow Man, Leaving Me

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1464, Harvard University Press

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• The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.

  Anais Nin

  Wall, Giving, Sensual

  "The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)". Book by Anais Nin, 1970.

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