GET DRUNK
"It is essential to be drunk all the time. That's all: there's no
other problem. If you do not want to feel the appalling weight of
Time which breaks your shoulders and bends you to the ground, get
drunk, and drunk again. What with? Wine, poetry, or virtue, please
yourself. But get drunk.
And if now and then, on the steps of a palace, on the green grass of
a ditch, in the glum loneliness of your room, you come to, your
drunken state abated or dissolved, ask the wind, ask the wave, the
star, the bird, the clock, ask all that runs away, all that groans,
all that wheels, all that sings, all that speaks, what time it is;
and the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, will tell you:
'It is time to get drunk!'
If you do not want to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk,
always get drunk! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue. As you
please."
- Charles Baudelaire, 1866.
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