#ecstasy

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. ↗

— Clive Bell

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

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Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. ↗

— Orson Welles

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And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another. ↗

— Hart Crane

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