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• There was a euphoria in the music and the way it was delivered, and, as the crowds started to get bigger, it fed off itself until it became less about the band and more about being with all those people, jumping up and down, drunk to the music.

  Noel Gallagher

  Jumping, People, Drunk

  "'U2 should shut up about Africa', says Noel Gallagher". Interview with Neil McCormick, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 8, 2007.

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• My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.

  Pattie Mallette

  Spiritual, Falling In Love, Real

  Pattie Mallette, A. J. Gregory (2012). “Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom”, p.84, Baker Books

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• I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't love me back - may, even, care for Remy- but at this precise moment I am succumbing to euphoria. My head and stomach feel quite odd.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Believe, Flower, Pigs

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.210, A&C Black

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• I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.

  Shirley Manson

  Pain, Cutting, Sight

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• The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible and terrifying of all human notions, love. That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand. Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the world's full octave. Love as Agape, Eros and Philos; love as infatuation, obsession and lust; love as torture, euphoria, ecstasy and oblivion (this is beginning to read like a Calvin Klein perfume catalogue); love as need, passion and desire.

  Stephen Fry

  Passion, Gay, Eight

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• If you have ever, sir, been through a breakup of a romantic relationship that involved great love, you will perhaps understand what I experienced. There is in such situations usually a moment of passion during which the unthinkable is said; this is followed by a sense of euphoria at finally being liberated; the world seems fresh as if seen for the first time then comes the inevitable period of doubt, the desperate and doomed backpedaling of regret; and only later, once emotions have receded, is one able to view with equanimity the journey through which one has passed.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Breakup, Regret, Love You

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You may think you don't want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn't feel so mere. From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs.

  Jerry Stahl

  Thinking, Waiting Rooms, Fleeting

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• Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further down on the bare skin of Ronan's back, Ronan himself disappeared entirely, and the tattoo got smaller and smaller. It was a Celtic knot the size of a wafer, and then Adam, who had become Kavinsky, said "Scio quid estis vos." He put the tattoo in his mouth and swallowed it. Ronan woke with a start, ashamed and euphoric. The euphoria wore off long before the shame did. He was never sleeping again.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Tattoo, Dream, Sleep

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• The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and euphoria of released tension.

  Paul Halmos

  Truth, Learning, Math

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• When investing, pessimism is your friend, euphoria the enemy.

  Warren Buffett

  Enemy, Investing, Financial

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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, Ecstasy

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• In an age of abstract experience, fornication
  Is self-expression, adjunct to Christian euphoria,
  And whores become delinquents; delinquents, patients;
  Patients, wards of society. Whores, by that rule,
  Are precious.

  Allen Tate

  Christian, Self, Expression

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.16, Macmillan

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• That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.

  Stephen Fry

  Sexuality, Gender, Homophobes

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.226, Soho Press

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• A lot of people say, "Oh, I get this high from working out." I've never felt that, maybe because I've worked out for so long it's just a norm for me to push super, super hard. I don't feel the euphoria. But at the end, when it's all done, I feel euphoric. I'm like, "Yes, the work is done." You just feel like a glowing feeling inside.

  Venus Williams

  People, Work Out, Long

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• For me, being Christian Armenian, born into the Islamic culture in Iran and then, at the age of 13, being sent to England and embracing the English culture and becoming part of so-called swinging London and the era of euphoria and celebration that the '60s represented is very critical. It was a moment when, for the first time, the business of internationalism was being effectively represented-in music, art, cinema, design. Before that, everything was directed toward the old industry, the old school, the old format, and there was no room for varieties to evolve.

  Tony Shafrazi

  Christian, Art, Islamic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You never stop the measuring process because these are oceans that are so deep that they have no bottom, and it takes a long time to know that. It only goes to a higher place after you've gone to the depths where you think there's a bottom - and when you find out that there is no bottom, it just rises up into this plume of euphoria.

  Kim Basinger

  Ocean, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I don't panic. The same thing applies to me as to everybody else, so I'm given to euphoria and despair. And I would say that I basically have survived by recognizing my mistakes.

  George Soros

  Mistake, Despair, Panic

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• Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which to obtain their daily opiate: an hallucinogenic euphoria which comes from the delusion of being superior to and more altruistic than all others. They must have 'the poor, huddled masses' in much the same manner as vampires must have the blood of their victims.

  Edward Britton

  Blood, Class, Vampire

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• When you make your first film, it's really hard in some ways. You're just nowhere. But then you have something. If you have a success, then you might be looking to take a fall. If you had a fall, you get a certain kind of euphoria because you're not dead, so you can still do it again. It's about how you go through the processes. Do you enjoy that "doing"? Is it getting less fun or more fun?

  David Lynch

  Fun, Fall, Kind

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• You've got this amazing creature- yourself- that can breathe, dance, and cry. And you have a certain amount of moments (maybe a few million moments-but moments they are) and you have this chance to do absolutely anything- to reach out to another vulnerable & true. To dance on the roof of euphoria and pray beside the ocean to let go. We have the chance every moment to Be Alive and give to this world who needs each one of us so badly.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Life, Letting Go, Ocean

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• The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large. Through dancing, the youths expressed raw power and rage while achieving euphoria, enhanced self-concept, and a healthy fatigue.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  New York, Cities, Self

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.175, Rowman Altamira

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• The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Distance, Moving, Science

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• in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Meditation, Feelings

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• The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from one technological innovation to the next, which would cause the economy to "grow" and make everything better and better. This of course implied at every point a hatred of the past, of all things inherited and free. All things superceded in our progress of innovations, whatever their value might have been, were discounted as of no value at all.

  Wendell Berry

  Past, Hatred, Innovation

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• We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all, most stubbornly of all, we invented privacy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Couple, Divorce

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