"The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied."
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"Ability has nothing to do with opportunity."
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"Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame."
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"Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go."
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"Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it."
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"Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain."
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"There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs."
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"Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine."
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"Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns."
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"An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong."
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"Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times."
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"He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie."
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"We are what we think."
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"There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge."
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"I believe that for the typical smoker nicotine satisfaction is the dominant desire, as opposed to flavor and other satisfactions."
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"I have a writing addiction."
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"Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both."
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"Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction"
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"This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice."
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"Serving one's own passions is the greatest slavery."
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