Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at... all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, nev...er 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 y...ou. Very little's ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at R...ome, 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Half-opening her lips to the frost's morning sigh, how strangely the rose has smiled on a swift-fleeting day of September! Ho...w audacious it is to advance in stately manner before the blue-tit fluttering in the shrubs that have long lost their leaves, like a queen with the spring's greeting on her lips; to bloom with steadfast hope that, parted from the cold flower-bed, she may be the last to cling, intoxicated, to a young hostess's breast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must remember when we speak of the "negativism" of the toddler that this is also the child who is intoxicated with the discover...ies of the second year, a joyful child who is firmly bound to his parents and his new-found world through ties of love. The so-called negativism is one of the aspects of this development, but under ordinary circumstances it does not become anarchy. It's a kind of declaration of independence, but there is no intention to unseat the government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A pragmatic race, the Japanese appear to have decided long ago that the only reason for drinking alcohol is to become intoxicated ...and therefore drink only when they wish to be drunk. So I went out into the night and the neon and let the crowd pull me along, walking blind, willing myself to be just a segment of that mass organism, just one more drifting chip of consciousness under the geodesics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I [Boswell] ... insisted that admiration was more pleasing than judgment, as love is more pleasing than friendship. The feeling of... friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love like being enlivened with champagne. JOHNSON. "No, Sir; admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship like being enlivened."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »