"I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction."

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If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

— Jean Cocteau