#intoxication

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

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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

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

— John Dryden

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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. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#escape #freedom #intoxication #reality #freedom

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. ↗

— Aristotle

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

— Andre Malraux

#china #intoxication #islam #need #opium

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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A lady that I know just came from Colombia. She laughed because I did not understand. She held out some marijuana uh-huh, said it was the finest in the land. I said, no-no-no-no, i dont smoke it no more. It only makes me fall on the floor.No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, and then it makes it hard to find the door. A lady that i know just came from Morrocco, Spain. She laughed because i did not understand. She held out a ten-pound bag of cocaine, said it was the finest in the land. I said no-no-no-no, i don't *sniff* no more, it only makes me fall on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, and then it makes it hard to find the door. A lady that i know just came from Tennesee. She laughed because i did not understand. She held out a jug of moonshine, uh-huh, said it was the finest in the land. I said no-no-no-no, i don't drink it no more, it only makes me fall on the floor. No thank you please, it only makes me sneeze, and then it makes it hard to find the door. Ringo Starr's No-No Song ↗

— Ringo Starr

#intoxication #song-lyrics #song-lyrics

Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare of Eric's nostrils that the intoxicating scent clung to me. Eric's eyes closed in ecstasy, and he actually licked his lips. I felt like a T-bone just out of reach of a hungry dog. "Snap out of it," I said. I wasn't in the mood. With a huge effort, Eric reigned himself in. "When you smell like that," he said, "I just wanna fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#fairies #humor #intoxication #sookie-stackhouse #vampires

Drunken men give some of the best pep talks. ↗

— Criss Jami

#best #conversation #drink #drinking #drunk