Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long."
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Ecstasy
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Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others."
Jean Genet
Playwright, Novelist
"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all."
Epictetus
Philosopher
"Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them."
Anais Nin
Writer, Diarist
"I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself."
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"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."
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"Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-."
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"An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music."
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"I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature."
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"Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live."
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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."
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"There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get."
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"Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time."
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"You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love."
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"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger."
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"Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces."
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"Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid."
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"To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial."
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"Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy."
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"There is no human reason to be here, except for the sheer ecstasy of being crowded together."
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"Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life."
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"There is ecstasy in paying attention."
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"Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction."
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"Ecstasy hates company."
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"There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever."
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