"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.“


-Friedrich Nietzsche

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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

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