No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.
Creation is a drug I can't do without.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
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