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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
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In 1804, while a student at Oxford, Thomas De Quincey was looking for relief from excruciating pain when a college acquaintance recommended opium. "Opium!" De Quincey wrote. "Dread agent of unimaginable pleasure and pain! I had heard of it as I had of manna or of ambrosia, but no further: how unmeaning ...Show more
Confessions of an English Opium Eater and Other Writings by Thomas De Quincey
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"I have often been asked how I first came to be a regular opium-eater..." "I sometimes seemed to have lived for 70 or 100 years in one night - nay, sometimes had feelings representative of a millennium passed in that time, or... of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience." In an exami ...Show more
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