I felt the first
I felt the first soft glow of intoxication that makes the blood warmer and spreads an illusion of adventure over uncertainty. Erich Maria Remarque
Intoxication
Exultation is the going
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land? Emily Dickinson
I have tried to
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen–and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed … Read more
If you\\’re unlucky enough
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
Consider love: is there
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime…but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention … Read more
Happiness is the intoxication
Happiness is the intoxication produced by the moment of poise between a satisfactory past and an immediate future, rich with promise. Ella Maillart
It is a new
It is a new intoxication – annihilation. It multiplies every emotion. Edwin Balmer
Many people have traveled
Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road… Ladies and gentlemen should guard against traveling by rail while in a beastly state of intoxication… the morning is a good time to find out how many people have succeeded in getting on the passenger … Read more
The architect represents neither
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power. Friedrich Nietzsche
The states in which
The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life… three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys. Friedrich Nietzsche