“If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism…. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”

—  Jean Cocteau

Opium (1929)

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French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager … 1889–1963

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