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То́мас де Кви́нси, или де Куи́нси — английский писатель, эссеист, автор знаменитой «Исповеди англичанина, употребляющего опиум» . Wikipedia  

✵ 15. Август 1785 – 8. Декабрь 1859
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“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!”

Thomas De Quincey книга Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Pt. II.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)

“The burden of the incommunicable.”

Thomas De Quincey книга Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Pt. I.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)

“Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated—everlasting farewells!”

Thomas De Quincey книга Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Pt. III.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)

“A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.”

Thomas De Quincey книга Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Appendix.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)

“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 книга Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Pt. II, Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)

“Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities … will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.”

Thomas De Quincey книга Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)

“In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.”

Thomas De Quincey книга Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)