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Since the time when it had been bestowed upon him, he lived for a great part of the day in a kind of dizzy self-intoxication.

From The Mantle and Other Stories by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich

The warm-hearted and melancholy child must needs undergo this second severe test, and he was destined to come out from it in a state of self-intoxication, a bewilderment of dreams and ideas.

From Honore de Balzac by Cooper, Frederic Taber

But in the midst of the whirl of self-intoxication, he thought with a shudder of bedtime, knowing he should not close his eyes the whole night.

From Atlantis by Seltzer, Adele Szold

The look did indeed deepen as it rested on him, for even in that moment of self-intoxication Lily felt the quicker beat of life that his nearness always produced.

From House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith