1. "Books are a narcotic."
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Quote by Franz Kafka
2. "Nostalgia is a narcotic."
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Elissa Schappell, Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction
3. "Luxury is a motivational narcotic."
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Daniel Coyle, The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills
4. "Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference."
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Quote by Charlie Chaplin
5. "If only religion were an opiate. No known narcotic rots the brain so fast."
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Christopher Hitchens, The Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
6. "Consequences lost all purchase when they became mad. And desperation, when pressed beyond anguish, became narcotic."
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R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior Prophet
7. "Conviction, no matter how narcotic its depth, simply did not make true."
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R. Scott Bakker, The Thousandfold Thought
8. "Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism."
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Quote by C.G. Jung
9. "He felt like an addict who, after abusing a narcotic for years, somehow found himself sober,"
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Ilona Andrews, Burn for Me
10. "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant—all the advantages of Christianity and alcohol, none of their drawbacks. Nothing"
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Robert S. de Ropp, The Master Game: Pathways to Higher Consciousness