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"It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously."
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Source: Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers
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