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• It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

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  Crush, Country, Sex

  Aleister Crowley (2015). “Moonchild”, p.213, Booklassic

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• Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

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  Lying, Self, Way

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.78, Weiser Books

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• She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

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  Opportunity, Men, Fire

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers - by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work - is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility. Yea, verily, and Amen! the task is tireless and its joys without bounds; for the whole Universe, and all that in it is, what is it but the infinite playground of the Crowned and Conquering Child, of the insatiable, the innocent, the ever-rejoicing Heir of Space and Eternity, whose name is MAN?

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  Children, Men, Names

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.

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  Sacrifice, Blood, Purpose

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

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  Heart, Eye, Grieving

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.44, Weiser Books

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• It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.

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  People, Trying, Needs

  Aleister Crowley (1986). “Book of Lies”, Weiser Books

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  I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

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  Believe, Devil, Ordinary

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 5, 1969.

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• This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

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  Men, Race, Knowing

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.

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  Mother, Stars, Father

  "Liber XV, The Gnostic Mass". Book by Aleister Crowley, www.scarletwoman.org. 1913.

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• Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

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  Life, Reality, Paganism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

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  Stars, Light, Sky

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.100, Lulu Press, Inc

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• This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.

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  Stars, Men, Light

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

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  Men, Thinking, Long

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.6, Weiser Books

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• What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

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  Real, Needs, Fantastic

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• The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

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  Wise, Men, Giving

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

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  Kissing, Boys, Lust

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography". Book by Aleister Crowley (Chapter 54), 1969.

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• Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown

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  Dream, Sleep, Blood

  Aleister Crowley (1913). “Liber CCCXXXIII [i.e. Trecentesimus Tricesimus Tertius]: The Book of Lies, which is Also Falsely Called, Breaks : the Wanderings Or Falsifications of the One Thought of Frater Perdurabo, which Thought is Itself Untrue”

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• The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.

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  Prejudice, Sin, Thelema

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 1. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

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  Children, White, Perfect

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• There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest risk, and what you say when you want it is, 'Garcon! Un Pernod!'

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  Running, Alcohol, Risk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

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  Sex, Names, Perception

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

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  Willpower, Talent, Virtue

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• The 'lords of the earth' are those who are doing their Will. It does not necessarily mean people with coronets and automobiles; there are plenty of such people who are the most sorrowful slaves in the world. The sole test of one's lordship is to know what one's true Will is, and to do it.

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  Mean, People, Doe

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

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  Self, Perfection, Path

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