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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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Do any philosophers cover sobriety?
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Gilles Deleuze was an alcoholic for a substantial part of his life and had to quit so as not to die. He wrote a lot about drugs and alcohol, but not in the naive way it is often presented. Here is a quote from What is Philosophy? - his last book, with something of a conclusion on the subject:  
 "The question of whether drugs help the artist to create... receives a general answer insofar as that which is composed under the influence of drugs is most often extraordinarily brittle, incapable of conserving itself, undoing itself as it's made, or as we look at it. One can indeed admire the drawings of children, or rather be touched by them; it's rare that they manage to stand on their own, not ressembling a Klee or a Miro unless we don't look for too long."