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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.

Aleister Crowley

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Aleister Crowley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1875
Born: October 12
Died: 1947
Died: December 1
Artist
Astrologer
Autobiographer
Chess Composer
Chess Player
Mountaineer
Novelist
Organizational Founder
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Leamington
Warwickshire
Stars
Universe
Light
Soul
Revel
Men
Mirth
Atoms
Wild
Eternity

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I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
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You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
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It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.
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Here again, there is no tabulation for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.
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What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
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Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.
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The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense use in attaining the mental powers necessary in Magick on the other hand, the discipline of Magick is of the greatest service in Yoga.
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We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
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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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There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!
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I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.
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The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
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The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
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May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!
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Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.
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It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.
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