“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!”
Pt. II.
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey, about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The Confessions was "the first major work De Quincey published and the one which won him fame almost overnight..."First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, the Confessions was released in book form in 1822, and again in 1856, in an edition revised by De Quincey.
Pt. I.
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“In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.”
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Pt. II, Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.
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Pt. I.
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Pt. I.
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“A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.”
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“Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated—everlasting farewells!”
Pt. III.
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