Et moi, scelerat que je suis, j'ai, comme chacun sait, recu des fees un charme contre la douleur; si j'ai adopte l'opium, c'est par un penchant abominable pour la recherche aventureuse de la volupte, et j'ai peche le plaisir dans toute sorte de ruisseaux. Quand je debutai dans la carriere de l'opium, je le fis avec une grande inquietude; devant mes yeux flottaient les images claires et sombres, selon mes dispositions du moment, des buveurs de brandy, que j'apercevais souvent sur la limite du delirium tremens. Je poursuivais l'opium sous l'influence d'une inexorable necessite; je le voyais...
Et moi, scelerat que je suis, j'ai, comme chacun sait, recu des fees un charme contre la douleur; si j'ai adopte l'opium, c'est par un penchant abomin...
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"The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vast as the bodily eye is not fitted to conceive. Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time; 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, however, of a duration far beyond the limits of any human experience." Confessions of an English Opium...
"The sense of space, and in the end, the sense of time, were both powerfully affected. Buildings, landscapes, &c. were exhibited in proportions so vas...
