September 10, 1936
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.”
“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”
Source: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms
“I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.”
May 30, 1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Context: Oh, God, I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love. I swim in the sky; I float; my body is full of flowers, flowers with fingers giving me acute, acute caresses, sparks, jewels, quivers of joy, dizziness, such dizziness. Music inside of one, drunkenness. Only closing the eyes and remembering, and the hunger, the hunger for more, more, the great hunger, the voracious hunger, and thirst.
“Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.”
Source: The Bronze Horseman
Part 1.3 Rights of Man
1790s, Rights of Man, Part I (1791)
The Basque girl and Henri Quatre from The London Literary Gazette (12th October 1822)
The Improvisatrice (1824)
Children of the Albatross (1947)
Context: In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.
On Lord Bacon (1837)
