Helpfully: two

Gaudier-Brzeska

The often stupefying oceanic hum that is caused by too much beauty, or too many martinis, or too many wise books, or too much desire can be abated, I have found, by remembering a definition of Buckminster Fuller:

The universe is the aggregate of non-simultaneous,
only partially overlapping,
transformational events.

Palliation!

Helpfully: one

For thirty years I have unfailingly lifted dark clouds by recalling a remark of Auden:
"English and German are the languages of heaven, and French is the language of hell, because the French people annoyed God in the first place by calling him Cher Maître."