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My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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.
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
