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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. (Quote by - Clive Bell)

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable. (Quote by - William Shatner)

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock. (Quote by - Hedy Lamarr)

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain. (Quote by - Neil Tennant)

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. (Quote by - Clive Bell)

I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now. (Quote by - Wavy Gravy)

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. (Quote by - Walter Pater)

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. (Quote by - Walter Pater)

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. (Quote by - Simone Weil)

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)

For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. (Quote by - Jack London)

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. (Quote by - Jean Genet)

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. (Quote by - Georges Bataille)

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. (Quote by - Jiddu Krishnamurti)

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. (Quote by - Anais Nin)

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