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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.
Aleister Crowley
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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
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The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.
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The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.
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To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
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This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.
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I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.
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Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
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Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
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Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.
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Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.
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The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.
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