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Ecstasy quotes

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“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.” Jack London, “The Call of the Wild” - 1903

“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.” Virginia Woolf, “Mrs Dalloway” - 1925

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.” Henry Miller, “Tropic of Cancer” - 1934

“Therefore it is that man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.” Honoré de Balzac, “Séraphîta” - 1834

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