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41 " peripatetic, "
― Thomas De Quincey , Confessions of an English Opium Eater
42 " a station which raises a man too eminently above the level of his fellow-creatures is not the most favourable to moral or to intellectual qualities "
43 " Nevertheless, I have a very reprehensible way of heating at times in the midst of my own misery: and, unless when I am checked by some powerful feelings, I am afraid I shall be guilty of this indecent practice even in these annals of suffering or enjoyment "
44 " So blended and intertwisted in this life are occasions of laughter and of tears, "
45 " Turkish opium-eaters, it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves. "
46 " I question whether any Turk, of all that have entered the Paradise of Opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had. But, indeed, I hounour the barbarians too much by supposing them capable of any pleasures approaching to the intellectual ones of an Englishman. "
47 " Not the Opium-eater, but the opium, is the true hero of the tale, and the legitimate centre on which the interest revolves. "
48 " Hayatımda hiçbir zaman, insan biçimindeki herhangi bir yaratığa dokunmak ya da yaklaşmakla kendini kirlenmiş sayacak bir insan olmadım ben. "