THE  PLEASURES  OF  OPIUM

Thomas de Quincey

The Pleasures of Opium
(1821; revised edition 1856)

"I took it, and in an hour, Oh Heavans ! What a revulsion ! What an upheaving, from its lowest depths, of the inner spirit 1 What an apocalypse of the world within me. What had opened before me -- an abyss of divine enjoyment suddenly revealed. Here was a panacea for all human woes. Here was the secret of happiness, about which philosophers had disputed for so many ages, at once discovered".
Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
(Essay, 1849)

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