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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. -- Aristotle
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. -- Lord Byron
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. -- Andre Malraux
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. -- Irving Babbitt
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. -- Jean Cocteau
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. -- Georges Duhamel
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. -- Pierre de Coubertin
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. -- Franz Kafka
Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. -- Michel de Montaigne
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. -- Douglas William Jerrold
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication. -- Cyril Connolly
Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. -- Aristotle
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. -- John Dryden
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. -- John Dryden
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. -- Diogenes
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in. -- Charles Hart
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men. -- Jacob Bronowski
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. -- Anais Nin
Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough. -- Andre Gide
The intoxication of power rapidly sobers off in the knowledge of its restrictions and under the prompt reminder of an ever-present and not always considerate press, as well as the kindly suggestions that not infrequently come from Congress. -- William Howard Taft
When ignorant people see someone who is dead, they are disgusted and horrified, even thought they too will be dead some day. I thought to myself: I don't want to be like the ignorant people. After then, I couldn't feel the usual intoxication with life anymore. -- Gautama Buddha
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred. -- Frank Herbert
What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior. -- Florence Nightingale
My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of Life,' 'The Real Cause of Man's Distress,' 'The Journey to the Goal in Life,' and, one of my favorites, 'The Heart of Man.' They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me. -- Muhammad Ali
The only proper intoxication is conversation. -- Oscar Wilde
Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness. -- August Bournonville
Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. -- Jim Harrison
Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication. -- Kilmer S. McCully
Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion. -- Samuel Johnson
It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion. -- Edwin Balmer
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant. -- Anne Rice
Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long. -- Susan Kay
Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication. -- Maya Angelou
I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism. -- Paula Modersohn-Becker
Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! -- Jean Dubuffet
Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind. -- Gregory Bateson
What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! -- Karl Kraus
All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. -- Richard von Krafft-Ebing
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty. -- Erich Maria Remarque
Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Oh I don't need an education Just a microphone's intoxication And I can't deal with concentration Give me tongues and stimulation -- Katy Rose
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise. -- Ella Maillart
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery. -- Samuel Johnson
It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough. -- Terence McKenna
I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication. -- Walt Whitman
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues. -- Emile M. Cioran
I missed the moment when time collapsed and memory was erased, replaced by finicky social experiments, lost in the blur of intoxication, sucked through multi-colored bendy-straws -- Alex Gaskarth
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past. -- Stefan Zweig
Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly? -- John Adams
You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart ! -- Rumi
Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind. -- Gerard De Nerval
There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me, savor each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in to the power of the music of the night. -- Charles Hart
Man being reasonable must get drunk The best of life is but intoxication Glory, the grape, love, gold in these are sunk The hopes of all men and of every nation -- Lord Byron
Kid's little binges, his forays into intoxication were affecting everyone now. They were affecting their goals and dreams. They were affecting Natasha. She was probably drinking just to deal with him. -- Melodie Ramone
Have you ever wondered why the slang terms for intoxication are so demolition-oriented? Stoned, smashed, hammered. It's because they're talking about the Ego. It's the Ego that gets blasted, waxed, plastered. -- Steven Pressfield
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety. -- William Rounseville Alger
Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness. -- Pierre Charron
the delight in natural things - colors, forms, scents - when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended ... -- Mary Augusta Ward
I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. -- Lady Randolph Churchill

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