Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Exuberance is better than taste.
Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.
It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.
It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.