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What Is It In Absinthe That Makes It A Separate Cult? The Effects Of Its Abuse Are Totally Distinct From Those Of Other Stimulants. Even In Ruin And In Degradation It Remains A Thing Apart: Its Victims Wear A Ghastly Aureole All Their Own, And In Their Peculiar Hell Yet Gloat With A Sinister Perversion Of Pride That They Are Not As Other Men.

The Few Love Affairs Which Had Come My Way Had Been Rather Silly And Sordid. They Had Not Revealed The Possibilities Of Love; In Fact I Had Thought It A Somewhat Overrated Pleasure, A Brief And Brutal Blindness With Boredom And Disgust Hard On Its Heels.

All Phenomena Of Which We Are Aware Take Place In Our Own Minds, And Therefore The Only Thing We Have To Look At Is The Mind; Which Is A More Constant Quantity Over All The Species Of Humanity Than Is Generally Supposed.

To Me A Book Is A Message From The Gods To Mankind; Or, If Not, Should Never Be Published At All.

I Am Inclined To Agree With The Head Master Of Eton That Pæderastic Passions Among Schoolboys 'do No Harm'; Further, I Think Them The Only Redeeming Feature Of Sexual Life At Public Schools.