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"For whatever reason, I've always felt like I /need/ a vice. I don't know whether this feeling is universal, but I have some way down, vibrating part of my subconscious that /needs/ to self-destruct. At least a little bit. [...] I haven’t smoked in more than fifteen years now, but I don’t think I ever quite escaped that cycle. There remains this yearning within my subconscious that cries out for a sacrifice."