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• The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

  Jack London

  Couple, Men, Glasses

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.212, Lulu.com

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• I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals.

  David Attenborough

  Nice, Mean, Animal

  "David Attenborough: I’m not an animal lover". Interview with Simon Gage, metro.co.uk. January 29, 2013.

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• I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms..." Tessa stared. "Alas," he went on, "no one has ever actually referred to me as 'the master,' or 'the magister,' either. More's the pity.

  Cassandra Clare

  Art, Lying, Flower

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• Intoxicated? The word did not express it by a mile. He was oiled, boiled, fried, plastered, whiffled, sozzled, and blotto.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Miles

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• I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

  Cat Stevens

  Teenager, Media, Names

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• Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Mind, Age, Poet

  Alexandre Dumas (1853). “The three musketeers, tr. by W. Robson”, p.195

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• People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.

  Andreï Makine

  Rain, Talking, Weather

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• Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Sadness, Home

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Intoxicated With the madness I'm in love with My sadness Bullshit beggars, enchanted kingdom Fashion victims through their charcoaled teeth

  Billy Corgan

  Fashion, Sadness, Bullshit

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• Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a departure from it. The phrase reminds one of the slightly intoxicated gentleman who gets up in his own dining room and declares firmly that he must be getting home.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Home, Gentleman, Dining

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• Hush Hattie!" I said, intoxicated with my success. "I don't want to go to my room. Everyone must know I shan't marry the prince." I ran to the door to our street, opened it, and called out into the night, "I shan't marry the prince." I turned back into the hall and ran to Char and threw my arms about his neck. "I shan't marry you." I kissed his cheek. He was safe from me.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Night, Doors, Necks

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• It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wine, Bottles, Kind

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• I succeeded in bewitching a fair number and in being intoxicated with my mistakes.

  Jean Cocteau

  Mistake, Numbers, Fairs

  Jean Cocteau (2013). “The Difficulty of Being”, p.37, Melville House

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• Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a particular delight. Intoxicated, she took less care for him than usual; abandoned and oblivious to all but her own pleasure, she would rake him, bite him - and beg him to serve her so, as well. He loved the feeling of power in it, the tantalizing choice between joining her at once in animal lust, or of holding himself-for a time- in check, so as to drive her at his whim.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Animal, Choices, Feelings

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.3795, Dell

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• Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Librarian, Subjects, Ifs

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.62, Random House

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• Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  Fall, Expression, Inspire

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• When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Letting Go, Luxury, Comfort

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• Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Mind

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 2 : The Creative Power of a Free Civilization, 1960.

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• My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on an ocean. I'm at home, wherever I am. And in the room of lovers, I can see with closed eyes the beauty that dances. Behind the veils, intoxicated with love, I too dance the rhythm of this moving world.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Moving, Heart

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• A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Drunk

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 389 (24 April 1779)

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• Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

  Heinrich Heine

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.171

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• The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

  Hakim Bey

  Wine, Sight, Water

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• Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Self, Grace, Unbroken

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• I went out with some old friends and we were having fun. A couple of them were very intoxicated. When I went to leave, I refused to let them drive. So when I got pulled over, I was the driver.

  Rima Fakih

  Couple, Fun, Old Friends

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• The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dancer, Together, Littles

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Mar 25, 2013

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