Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
Terence McKenna
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Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.
Violette Leduc
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The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison.
Vladimir Nabokov
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I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
Robbie Williams
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
Bette Davis
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I liked the scenes with the baby, but the baby steals all the scenes that you're in. So that would get old after a while, because the baby is too perfect. I liked being high on ecstasy.
Michael Emerson
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This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.
Charles Gounod
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I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.
G.A. Henty
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My kids enjoy the Disney program, Lizzy McGuire.
Sela Ward
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We betray ourselves into smallness when we think the little choices of each day are trivial.
Helen Keller
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At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love somebody else.
Nikki Reed
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The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
Georges Bataille
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
Terence McKenna