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Letter "I" » intoxication
«The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.»
«The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men»
«To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation ? not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see.»
Author: R. Scott Bakker
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«The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.»
«The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust»
«The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.»
«We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Delicious,
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Morning after,
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