| Quotation | Drug | Source |
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| 'Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience' | |
| 'A portion of the self overflows into the outer world... which begins to live, to have another, a deeper meaning. This can be perceived as a blessed, or as a demonic trance' | |
| “I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh' | |
| 'the first few sniffs produce an impatient uneasiness; I am almost irresistibly driven to go on to my physiological limit for that time' | |
| 'I took [it] for years in order to get energy to write. I had to write so much...In five years I wrote sixteen novels, which is incredible.' | |
| 'The cause of...and solution to...all of life's problems' | |
| 'I was seduced into the ACCURSED Habit ignorantly – it worked like a charm, like a miracle!' | |
| 'Beautiful, stern, rich encounter with livingness and Indian gods and serenity. Color and peacefulness'' | |
| | Quotation | Drug | Source |
|---|
| 'Then comes a tidal wave of euphoria that sweeps away every negative thought in my head. I've never felt so alive, so hopeful - and I've never felt such energy' | |
| 'The ordinary world is almost instantaneously replaced, not only with a hallucination, but by a hallucination whose alien character is its utter alienness' | |
| 'I felt a rush of energy, Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop' | |
| 'It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel ... total loss of all basic motor skills: blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue' | |
| 'There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference' | |
| ' The dissociation that it gives fits perfectly with the dark, mechanical feeling of the music...psychedelic neon-like effects' | |
| 'I was not now looking at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation- the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence' | |
| 'I am astounded. Everyone must experience a profound state like this. I feel totally peaceful. I have lived all my life to get here, and I feel I have come home. I am complete' | |
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The Nine Planets 
Digits of Pi 
Multiplication Table
