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The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
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
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Mountaineer
Novelist
Organizational Founder
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Leamington
Warwickshire
English
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Shakespeare
Testament
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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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You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
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Toronto as a city carries out the idea of Canada as a country. It is a calculated crime against the aspirations of the soul and the affection of the heart.
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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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I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
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By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
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Practically, Science is true and Faith is foolish.
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To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.
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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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For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
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Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results — of an extremely temporary nature.
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Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
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I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.
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Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.
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We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
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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.
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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 more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.
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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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The key of joy is disobedience.
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