#intoxication

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

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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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