intoxication

Cockney Rhyming Slang

addiction

cocaine

falling in love

love

trivia

drunkenness

getting drunk

hangover

regret

self

waking up

is a kind of kindness, an indescribable gloss and glamour like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

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

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.

is indispensable as a physiological precondition for art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist.

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

is necessary for art or any aesthetic activity or perception to exist.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication [Rausch]' (TI, 'Expeditions of an Untimely Man,' 8).

is a kind of existential awakening. A man does not exist until he is drunk.

is of two types:: The stupid, unimaginative stumbling man whose body is drunk and the imaginative visionary whose brain is drunken.

There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots... who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants. . . . The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken. Jack London

is responsible for preserving the possibility of life. Once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.

It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us... once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion. Leo Tolstoy

is in the world itself. The more a man drinks of the world, the more it intoxicates.

The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth. Francis Bacon

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