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

— John Dryden

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