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Intoxication, like sexual euphoria, is the privilege of the human animal. — Roman Payne

Art is made by the alone for the alone ... The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication ... — Cyril Connolly

That tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals ... — Marquis De Sade

I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty. — Erich Maria Remarque

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle.

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion. — Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

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

This, Mrs Munroe, is the scent of intoxication and desire. The perfume of seduction. — Kathleen Tessaro

Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping. — Stephen Colbert

Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What are reason and sobriety without the knowledge of intoxication? — Hermann Hesse

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication. — Maya Angelou

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. — Andre Malraux

Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.It doesn't last very long. — Susan Kay

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

Convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication. — Jane Austen

To be or not to be, fucked up on whiskey, that is the question. — Robert Black

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

What are all the orgies of Bacchus when compared to the intoxication of someone who completely surrenders to continence! — Karl Kraus

Ultimately, the intoxication of exploration seemed to draw her further from god rather than closer. — Kim Todd

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. — Irving Babbitt

One physiological precondition is indispensible for there to be art: intoxication, or the feeling of fullness and increasing strenth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

What? You'd dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?
That's when you need a drink the most. — Charles Bukowski

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

Arteriosclerosis can be considered a disease of protein intoxication. — Kilmer S. McCully

All that I desire in life are three ...
A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,
A puff of opium,
And thee. — Roman Payne

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

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication. — George Gordon Byron

Love is the intoxication of God. — Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing. — Michel De Montaigne

Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. And I was comfortable with it. — Joss Sheldon

It is a new intoxication - annihilation. It multiplies every emotion. — Edwin Balmer

Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together. — Mahatma Gandhi

All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings - greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. — Erich Maria Remarque

The only proper intoxication is conversation. — Oscar Wilde

There's nothing really quite like that first soft spring breeze of intoxication. Keep drinking all you want, but you will never get it back. — Michael Pollan

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

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. — Alphonse De Lamartine

Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness. — August Bournonville

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

Your love intoxicates me into an intoxication of intoxicating intoxication. — Avijeet Das

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind. — Gregory Bateson

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime. — Douglas William Jerrold

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

Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits. — Mahatma Gandhi

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I. — Pawan Mishra

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language. — Jim Harrison

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing. — Aristotle.

The sun is my wine. — Marty Rubin

Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise. — Ella Maillart

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. — Diogenes

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

In the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward. — Hermann Broch

You're like an idiot...trapped in an idiot's body!"

Hey it was funny at the time and level of intoxication. — Jedidiah Behe

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. — John Dryden

I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication. — John Mole

Writing is its own intoxication. — Charles Bukowski

An intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant. — Anne Rice

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii) — William Shakespeare

We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication. — Emil Cioran

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion. — Samuel Johnson

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. — Samuel Butler

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. — John Milton

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism. — Paula Modersohn-Becker

It's the intoxication of nirvana. That's how you get us to endure this life. You promise us heaven, don't you? But what do you know of our hell? — Hugh Howey

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks. — Criss Jami