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«The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den»
Author: Phillip Adams | About: Books | Keywords: addiction, counterpart, counterparts, den, fierce, forcing, heroin, heroin addiction, junkie, junkies, junky, Libraries, literary, nicotine, opium, opium den, shops
«Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.»
Author: Thomas Sydenham | About: Opium, Pain, Providence, Suffering | Keywords: Almighty, Almighty God, efficacious, opium, pleased, relieve, remedies, sufferings
«Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.»
Author: Tom Robbins (Novelist) | About: Religion | Keywords: cyanide, masses, opium, The Masses
«It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.»
Author: Antonin Artaud | Keywords: from time to time, in working order, opium
«We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.»
Author: Charles Kingsley (Clergyman, Teacher, Writer) | Keywords: beasts, beasts of burden, beast of burden, constable, constables, dose, doses, handbook, opium, overload, overloaded
«Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.»
Author: Jean Cocteau (Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet) | About: Death and dying, Drugs, Life, Love | Keywords: express train, occurs, opium, other than, racing, smoke
«Religion is the opium of the masses.»
Author: Karl Marx (Philosopher) | About: Religion | Keywords: masse, masses, opium, The Masses
«Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.»
Author: Karl Marx (Philosopher) | About: Religion | Keywords: conditions, creature, heartless, opium, oppressed, sigh, soulless
«He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.»
Author: Anais Nin (Author) | About: Gifts | Keywords: opium, reverie, reveries, The Gift
«It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?»
Author: Bill Hicks (Comedian) | Keywords: drinking water, Night and Day, opium, tonight, Weird
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