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He looked at the face in the sun’s light, and discovered a peculiar intensity there. He knew the expression: it comes from hashish. Carried along on its hot fumes, a man can escape very far from the world of meaning.
Paul Bowles • The Delicate Prey: And Other Stories

Scarcely had I regained recollection of the purpose that brought me hither. Thoughts of a different tendency had such absolute possession of my mind, that the relations of time and space were almost obliterated from my understanding. These wanderings, however, were restrained, and I ascended to her chamber.
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
An individual’s life consisted of certain classified things: “real things” which were unfrequent and priceless, simply “things” which formed the routine stuff of life; and “ghost things,” also called “fogs,” such as fever, toothache, dreadful disappointments, and death.
Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
superfluous.
Anna Kavan • Ice (Penguin Modern Classics)
I had an obscure feeling that all was not over, and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past. There was always scope for fear, so long as any thing I loved remained behind. My abhorrence of this fiend cannot be conceived. When I thought of him, I gnashed my teeth, my eyes
... See moreMary Shelley • Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (The MIT Press)
In the late nineteenth century, about 40 million Chinese, a tenth of the country’s population, were opium addicts.3
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
for gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings
Charles Dickens • Nicholas Nickleby: By Charles Dickens : Illustrated
The things I’ve done for sex and drugs: unspeakable. The things sex and drugs have done for me: my entire output. And enough material to last me another lifetime as an artist.