"The more a book is like an opium……" — Julio Cortazar
"The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects."
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- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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