The most powerful ingredient in pastis is not aniseed or alcohol but ambiance, and that dictates how and where it should be drunk. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men. What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. But you are safe with me.Īlso Read: 30 Famous Alcohol Quotes and Sayings to Overcome Addiction The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.Ībsinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. What is a writer’s message is totally unimportant. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?Īnti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.Ī glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. After the second, you see things as they are not.
Let me be mad, mad with madness of absinthe, the wildest most luxurious madness in the world.įor me, my glory is but a humble ephemeral absinthe drunk on the sly, with fear of treason and if I drink no longer, it is for good reason!Īlso Read: 150 Feeling Depressed Quotes and Sayings About Love and LifeĪfter the first glass you see things as you wish they were. One can no longer distinguish between history and reality after the absinthe goes in the punch.
Also Read: 50 Famous Artist Quotes about Life, Love, Art, and CreativityĪbsinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.Ībsinthe, on a winter evening.
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