“Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine.
It doesn't last very long.”
Erik (p. 397)
Phantom (1990)
“This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.”
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