Heroin/history

Famous quotes containing the words heroin and/or history:

“Who lives longer: the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or the man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes till ninety-five? One passes his twenty-four months in eternity. All the years of the beef-eater are lived only in time.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)