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How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in t...

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You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could ris...

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Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul, and is also the ...

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Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely e...

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

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that ...

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Stephen FryMoab Is My Washpot

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This i...

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Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empat...

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To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

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Walter PaterThe Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fi...

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

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shack...

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On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths,And walk over the short grass, as I am pricke...

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

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Bill WattersonWeirdos From Another Planet: Calvin & Hobbes Series: Book Six: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

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Carl SaganBroca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

Swifts, on a fine morning in May, flying this way, that way, sailing around at a great hight, perfec...

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Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordle...

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It was heart-shaking. Glorious. Torches, dizziness, singing. Wolves howling around us and a bull bel...

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I mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it's not at all. Time i...

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Donna TarttThe Secret History

I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a ...

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We kissed for a bit and I stopped shaking. We played with each other for a long time, and after we h...

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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is th...

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Jack LondonThe Call of the Wild