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Quotation by Thomas De Quincey
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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)"Murder Considered As One of the Fine Arts" The Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, ed. D. Masson (1889)"Preliminary Confessions" Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)"The Pleasures of Opium" Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)
It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London.
Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), British author. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, pt. 2, "The Pleasures of Opium," (1822).
Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.
Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.
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