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Read & copy
“years that were far asunder were bound together by subtle links of suffering derived from a common root.”
Meaning & context
De Quincey describes how pain separated by many years can still feel connected when later suffering grows from an earlier unresolved source.
Source details
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, from the autobiographical narrative first published in the London Magazine in 1821 and represented by Project Gutenberg #2040. The passage belongs to De Quincey’s historical life-writing around opium use and suffering; it is not medical guidance about addiction or trauma.