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• How many young men, in all previous times of unprecedented steadiness, had turned suddenly wild and wicked for the same reason, and, in an ecstasy of unrequited love, taken to wrench off door-knockers, and invert the boxes of rheumatic watchmen!

  Charles Dickens

  Heartbreak, Taken, Unrequited Love

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Barnaby Rudge, And, Hard Times: With Ten Illustrations”, p.193

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• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.

  Charles Dickens

  Memories, Husband, Men

  'Little Dorrit' (1857) bk. 1, ch. 24 (Flora Finching)

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• To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom we trust, who takes us in her arms. We rock together with this loved one. We move beyond speech. Our bodies move past all the controls we have learned. We cry out in ecstasy, in feeling. We are back in a natural world before culture tried to erase our experience of nature. In this world, to touch another is to express love; there is no idea apart from feeling, and no feeling which does not ring through our bodies and our souls at once.

  Susan Griffin

  Sex, Moving, Past

  Susan Griffin (1981). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revolt Against Nature”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• And that third dimension brings bliss. Bliss is without any opposite to it. It is serene, tranquil, cool. It is ecstasy without any excitement.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Opposites, Dimensions

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• Every dance is and gives ecstasy.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Giving, Dancing

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• Bouillabaisse, this golden soup, this incomparable golden soup which embodies and concentrates all the aromas of our shores and which permeates, like an ecstasy, the stomachs of astonished gastronomes. Bouillabaisse is one of those classic dishes whose glory has encircled the world, and the miracle consists of this: there are as many bouillabaisses as there are good chefs or cordon bleus. Each brings to his own version his special touch.

  Curnonsky

  Food, Miracle, Cooking

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• This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Nature, Eye

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Somewhere Else, Long

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty, Years, White

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Happiness, Real

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 04, 2016

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• Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It is not an exercise in reciting what Jesus has done for me lately. Energy-fire ecstasy, more a buzz than a binge, takes us out of ourselves, literally. That is the meaning of the word 'ecstatic.'

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Exercise, Fire

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• 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

  Creating, Together, Feels

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• Why one picture stands out among many others is always a mystery. In the beginning the subject is never quite known, but in the course of working something shows up on the film or in the print that speaks to me. I can never predict when this will happen. However, when it does there is an excitement - there is the ecstasy of recognition. And this is one of the things that keeps me going.

  Ray Metzker

  Doe, Never Quit, Recognition

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• [The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

  Hart Crane

  Eye, Essence, Intuition

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

  A. J. Liebling

  Writing, Self, Woven

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.27, North Point Press

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• This coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe coming closer together, and nightlife and techno and ecstasy culture seemed like a very powerful panEuropean movement.

  Wolfgang Tillmans

  Wall, Powerful, Fall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A wild angel had appeared to him, the angel of mortal youth and beauty, an envoy from the fair courts of life, to throw open before him in an instant of ecstasy the gates of all the ways of error and glory.

  James Joyce

  Angel, Errors, Way

  James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.132, Wordsworth Editions

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• One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Illumination, Sobriety, Vision

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.48, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• What do you do for ecstasy?

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (1993). “The Peaceable Classroom”, Boynton/Cook

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• remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fall, Apples, Tree

  Hilda Doolittle, Aliki Barnstone (1973). “Trilogy”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• To be awake and harmonious creates the possibility for ecstasy to happen. Ecstasy means the ultimate joy, inexpressible; no words are adequate to say anything about it. And when one has attained to ecstasy, when one has known the ultimate peak of joy, compassion comes as a consequence. When you have that joy, you like to share it; you cannot avoid sharing, sharing is inevitable.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Compassion, Joy

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• Witness the witness itself - and... the ultimate ecstasy is created. Start watching your thoughts but don't stop there... One more thing has to be done, one more step: now watch the watcher... Nothing else is left, only you are. By watching the mind, the mind disappears. By watching the witness, the witness expands and becomes universal.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Steps, Watches

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• I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hangover, Mean, People

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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• You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy.

  Delano Johnson

  Captivating, Fantastic, Schemes

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• The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, Arms, He Man

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