The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

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Mots clés alcohol nicotine

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Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

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Mots clés surrender

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All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. Because in addition to that feeling, that disintegration, there was rage. I wanted to break something.

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Mots clés rage breakdown

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Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

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Mots clés time

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A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.

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We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.

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Mots clés time conscious

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I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

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Mots clés suicide

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There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that no one would know how beautiful she was. And maybe she would die without ever having really lived.

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Mots clés beauty death

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I looked at him on the bed. He coughed once and a trail of brownish dead blood came out of his mouth and ran down the side of his chin. Then he stopped breathing. And I thought, I'll make sure I never end up here, either.

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Mots clés death

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That night Christine Hartmann went to bed with a book she had taken from among the many that lay strewn around the Manor. From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else's. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on their ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else's, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

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