"Get Drunk!"

"Get Drunk!"

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters;
that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's
horrible burden one which breaks your shoulders and bows

you down, you must get drunk without cease.

But with what?
With wine, poetry, or virtue
as you choose.
But get drunk.

And if, at some time, on steps of a palace,
in the green grass of a ditch,
in the bleak solitude of your room,
you are waking and the drunkenness has already abated,
ask the wind, the wave, the stars, the clock,
all that which flees,
all that which groans,
all that which rolls,
all that which sings,
all that which speaks,
ask them, what time it is;
and the wind, the wave, the stars, the birds, and the clock,
they will all reply:

"It is time to get drunk!

So that you may not be the martyred slaves of Time,
get drunk, get drunk,
and never pause for rest!
With wine, poetry, or virtue,
as you choose!"

Alain de Botton

“As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” 

Charles Manson

" Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that. "

Charles Manson

" From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment. "

Alice Miller

“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies.
The body sticks to the facts."