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• I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.

  Daphne Gottlieb

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Kissing

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• To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Struggle, Warrior, Giving

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.

  Count of St. Germain

  Children, Real, Blessed

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• Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating ... an awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it.

  Doris Lessing

  Strong, War, People

  Doris Lessing (2013). “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

  Warren Buffett

  Despair, Psychotic, Given

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• Praise with elation
  Praise every morning
  Spring's re-creation
  Of the First Day!

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Morning, Spring, Firsts

  Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “The New Book of Days”, p.91, Random House

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• An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

  Aimee Mullins

  Success, Sports, Teamwork

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• Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.

  Anne Sexton

  Running, House, Over You

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• She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Wonderful, Forget, Made

  Madeleine L'Engle (2010). “And Both Were Young”, p.27, Macmillan

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• There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the level of human sounds and habitations, among the wild expanses and colossal features of Nature, we are thrilled in our loneliness with a strange fear and elation – an ascent above the reach of life's expectations or companionship, and the tremblings of a wild and undefined misgivings.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Loneliness, Expectations, Solitude

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2015). “The Haunted Baronet”, p.52, 谷月社

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• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  Ian Mcewan

  Hurt, Sensual, Might

  Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.90, Random House

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• If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

  Michelangelo

  Inspiration, Fire, Wind

  Michelangelo (2000). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• Of course, art in and of itself gives me some feeling of elation or power and is in some way curative. But actually what's interesting at the end of the day is the various interpretations and conversations between us. Something that exists between us is probably better than you and better than me.

  Sarah Morris

  Art, Giving, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation

  Arthur Godfrey

  Voice, Tea, Heat

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• It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, Commitment, Eye

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• Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.

  Lisa Belkin

  Disappointment, Work, Frustration

  Lisa Belkin (2003). “Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands-he had to comply. A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest-Brett could hardly contain his elation.

  Jess C Scott

  Girl, School, Roots

  Jess C. Scott (2011). “Catholic School Girls Rule”, p.25, jessINK

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• Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

  Henry Rollins

  Sadness, Design, Misery

  Song: Obscene

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• Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

  Seneca the Younger

  Drinking, Wine, Sobriety

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• The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world. Steinberg inhabits our first bewilderments, the terrors and the tenderness that shape our lives. To read her is to fall out of the daily into a fresh elation.

  Noy Holland

  Fall, Seductive, Stories

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• Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

  Yann Martel

  Joy, Understanding, Feelings

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.98, Canongate Books

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• Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

  Steven G. Krantz

  Math, Black, Despair

  Steven G. Krantz (2017). “A Primer of Mathematical Writing: Being a Disquisition on Having Your Ideas Recorded, Typeset, Published, Read, and Appreciated, Second Edition”, p.74, American Mathematical Soc.

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• I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the correct etiquette-to her face. However, well... When I first met Firekeeper, less than a year ago, her relationships with animals fell into pretty much two categories: those you ate and those you befriended. I remember that she thought we were pretty clever for bringing horses along so we wouldn't need to hunt our meat. It took me a while to show her they had other uses.

  Jane Lindskold

  Horse, Clever, Animal

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• I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.

  Michael Franti

  Air, Hands, Alive

  "Michael Franti | Rocker. Chart Topper. Humanitarian. Bad Ass. Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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