Quote by Jean Cocteau
It is difficult to live without opium after having known it becaus

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously. – Jean Cocteau

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Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. – Jean Cocteau

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. – Jean Cocteau

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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium! – Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Part II

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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. – William Jefferson Clinton

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Woe to you, my Princess, when I come… you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesnt eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. – Sigmund Freud

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