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I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
Artist
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Chess Composer
Chess Player
Mountaineer
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Warwickshire
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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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There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!
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A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
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The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
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When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.
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There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
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I've often thought that there isn't any I at all that we are simply the means of expression of something else that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
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