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• The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

  Mark Twain

  Ceramics, Pieces, Pottery

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.71, 谷月社

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• A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

  Julie Burchill

  Agony, Welcome, Cynicism

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• There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

  Rollo May

  Joy, Creation, Form

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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• One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most people - given that sexuality is something, like nuclear energy, which may prove amenable to domestication through scruple, but then again may not.

  Susan Sontag

  People, May, Energy

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• Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.

  Rajneesh

  Unlimited Potential, Silence, Joy

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• The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one's psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.

  Ellen Willis

  Self, Anxiety, Despair

  Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.

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• A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still. The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs,, A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, you're hurt exclaim.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Spring, Rocks

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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• Ecstasy hates company.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Hate, Company

  Robert Charles Wilson (2000). “The Perseids and Other Stories”, p.51, Macmillan

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• Some astral dimensions are bright and filled with ecstasy. Advanced cosmic beings live in them. But there are also very dark astral dimensions, often inhabited by beings that are filled with hate and despair.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Hate, Dark

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Considering the notion that the spiritual battlefield is infinitely greater than the physical, perhaps God is more willing to bless with a sort of divine ecstasy those who see the devil as the enemy rather than those who see other people as the enemies.

  Criss Jami

  Spiritual, People, Enemy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.73, Criss Jami

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• Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Philosophical, Light

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• The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most people will in a thousand lifetimes.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, People, Path

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• It's ecstasy when you're laying down next to me.

  Barry White

  Expression, Laying Down, Next

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• Saloons provide moments of genuine ecstasy - but only if your soul is at peace and the rest of your life bears contemplating. Otherwise, they are palaces of misery.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Soul, Rest Of Your Life, Palaces

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• Ah, fortune and fame shall follow me ... and I shall dwell in the world of the chosen for a few moments of fleeting ecstasy; ere the seven burly lads turn into creditors and hustle me off to debtors' prison at last.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hustle, Fleeting, World

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.44, Ballantine Books

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• If women experienced the ecstasy of birth, they would have the high that would get them through the hormonal changes of the next week. Your body and your inner wisdom give you that high.

  Christiane Northrup

  Next Week, Giving, Body

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• The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

  Cyril Connolly

  Pain, Golden Moments, Pleasure

  Cyril Connolly (2008). “Enemies of Promise”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, that of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical.

  Georges Bataille

  Thinking, Mystical Experiences, Ties

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.3, SUNY Press

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• Marriage is not a static state between two unchanging people. Marriage is a psychological and spiritual journey that begins in the ecstasy of attraction, meanders through a rocky stretch of self-discovery, and culminates in the creation of an intimate, joyful, lifelong union.

  Harville Hendrix

  Marriage, Spiritual, Journey

  Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. (2007). “Getting the Love You Want, 20th Anniversary Edition: A Guide for Couples”, p.42, Macmillan

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• I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself.

  Georges Bataille

  Way

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.12, SUNY Press

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• Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

  Tanith Lee

  Wine, Would Be, Cups

  Tanith Lee (2016). “Death's Master”, p.72, Penguin

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• Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.

  Greta Garbo

  Cinema, Flesh, Faces

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• Human beings have illusions. The enlightened don't have illusions. They see things as they are, and in that seeing, they see ecstasy and joy. They see the play of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Play, Joy

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• One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

  Dan Savage

  Men, Poetic, Another Man

  "Come to the Bash". Savage Love Column, www.thestranger.com. February 09, 2006.

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• Enlightenment is really worth seeking. It is the only thing that gives you permanent happiness. When you experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, everything is alright.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Enlightenment, Alright

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