208 Quotes About Ecstasy


  • Author Nicolas Bouvier
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    Finalement, ce qui constitue l'ossature de l'existence, ce n'est ni la famille, ni la carrière, ni ce que d'autres diront ou penseront de vous, mais quelques instants de cette nature, soulevés par une lévitation plus sereine encore que celle de l'amour, et que la vie nous distribue avec une parcimonie à la mesure de notre faible cœur.

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  • Author Mukta Singh-Zocchi
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    He turned his thoughts instead to his wife. He imagined how upon his return he would pull her into the bed and make love to her, the gem-encrusted, meena-painted necklace adorning her bared bosom, strands of her long silky hair flowing all around his head like streaming waterfall, eyes half-shut in ecstasy.

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  • Author Arthur Machen
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    The arts, then, are man’s difference, that which makes him to be what he is; and when he speaks through them he is using the utterance which is proper to him, as man. For, if we once set aside the “does it pay” nonsense, which is evidently nonsense and pestilent nonsense at that, we come clearly and freely to the truth that man is concerned with beauty, and with the ecstasy or rapture that proceeds from the creation of beauty and from the contemplation of it.

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