Opium Trade

Famous quotes containing the words opium and/or trade:

    “Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.”
    —Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    “My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him order the architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man’s knowledge, not according to his own.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)