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  • When Northern Europe, whether it hates Nietzsche or not, is crying out for the Dionysic ecstasy, practising on itself the

    Twilight in Italy 2003

  • Dionysic ecstasy, Southern Europe is breaking free from Dionysus, from the triumphal affirmation of life over death, immortality through procreation.

    Twilight in Italy 2003

  • In the supreme ecstasy of the flesh, the Dionysic ecstasy, he reaches this state.

    Twilight in Italy 2003

  • Nietzsche learnt that wanton Dionysic talisman which opens the door to such singular spiritual orgies.

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • His very mania for tragedy, his Dionysic embracing of it, precludes any premature despair.

    Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

  • In the supreme ecstasy of the flesh, the Dionysic ecstasy, he reaches this state.

    Twilight in Italy 1907

  • When Northern Europe, whether it hates Nietzsche or not, is crying out for the Dionysic ecstasy, practising on itself the Dionysic ecstasy, Southern Europe is breaking free from Dionysus, from the triumphal affirmation of life over death, immortality through procreation.

    Twilight in Italy 1907

  • 'I don't mean let yourself go in the Dionysic ecstatic way,' he said.

    Women in Love 1907

  • I wish I could repeat to you all the Dionysic verse of this old poet from Venosa, whose subjects and motives, even though expressed in the choicest forms, may seem common and conventional in our time and to us, among whom for centuries the custom of drinking wine daily with meals has been a general habit.

    Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906

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