{"quotes":[{"text":"All that I desire in life are three...A wilderness: A beach on the sun-drenched sea,A puff of opium,And thee.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["desire","desiring-someone","intoxication","love","lovers","loving","loving-someone","opium","poem","roman-payne","sea","short-love","sunshine","true-love","wilderness"],"id":40174,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.","author":"André Malraux","tags":["china","hashish","intoxication","islam","opium","woman"],"id":51600,"author_id":"Andr%C3%A9+Malraux"},{"text":"My love', she whispered, so low she sounded to Jacques as if she were speaking from the bottom of an abyss, 'now we shall belong to each other in a strange country that you do not know. It is the country of madmen but not the country of brutes. I am taking away your vulgar senses and giving you others more refined.","author":"Rachilde","tags":["drugs","opium"],"id":52430,"author_id":"Rachilde"},{"text":"The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.","author":"Sebastian Faulks","tags":["opium","pain"],"id":55316,"author_id":"Sebastian+Faulks"},{"text":"Of all the remedies it has pleased almighty God to give man to relieve his suffering, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.","author":"Thomas Sydenham","tags":["drugs","heaven-sent","medicine","opium","painkiller","remedy"],"id":98704,"author_id":"Thomas+Sydenham"},{"text":"To aspire is to go back to the start of the journey when you're one lap away from the finish line, we have to begin with the end in mind and dig for for the opium goals.","author":"Goitsemang Mvula","tags":["aspirations","end","goals","journey","mind","opium"],"id":132983,"author_id":"Goitsemang+Mvula"},{"text":"Is China a drug? Like any drug, it depends entirely on the user’s own state of mind. If we’re making metaphors, for old China hands I’d imagine their time here draws parallels with the soaring euphoria and bleak depths of smoking opium, while China for the uninitiated is probably a bit like bath salts: the constantly convulsing nervous system, the paranoia, the god-complex, the rage. I’d liken my own China experience to a decade-long acid trip. It began with liberating my mind from the restraints of Western society. Then I departed on an odyssey that took me tens of thousands of miles across China, experiencing various metaphysical and spiritual states as my journey progressed, punctuated by periods of intense creativity due to my heightened sensory perceptions. To a background score of warped erhu and guzheng, and the looped calls of sidewalk vendors echoing into the void, the kaleidoscopic chaos of this culture surged around me like the Yangtze river – in outer space. Now I’m one with China’s cosmic consciousness. I want to reeducate the communists with love. Or maybe I’m not even here. Maybe I really did perish during my kora around Mount Kailash and none of this ever happened...","author":"Tom Carter","tags":["acid","asia","asian","bath-salts","books","china","china-expats","chinese","communism","drugs","expatriates","expats","foreigners-in-china","opium","psychedelic","quotes","tom-carter","travel","unsavory-elements"],"id":155889,"author_id":"Tom+Carter"},{"text":"The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.","author":"Jean Cocteau","tags":["drugs","opium","scent"],"id":186575,"author_id":"Jean+Cocteau"},{"text":"Back in the gurdwara, the ceiling doing strange things above my head, Jungli fed me with pieces of orange. Our outspoken attachment deepened. I was moved by his tenderness, his simplicity and his beautiful eyes. Beauty is a great robber of my common sense.","author":"Sarah Lloyd","tags":["gurdwara","india","love","lovers","opium"],"id":212899,"author_id":"Sarah+Lloyd"},{"text":"I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["dreams","flower","garden","love","moments","morning","opium","payne","poetry","posture","quietness","roman","silence","sleep","yoga"],"id":227085,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}