“The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.”
Aristotle
“Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.”
“I nearly shot a young girl who had a handgun in her hand and was intoxicated, shooting wildly into the darkness. She was terrified and I was terrified.”
Rob Levy
“Not wine... men intoxicate themselves; Not vice... men entice themselves.”
William Shakespeare
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
Cyril Connolly
“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.”
R. Scott Bakker
“Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.”
Edmund Burke
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