QUOTES by Aleister Crowley
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"The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men."
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"For when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself."
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In vain we labour at the loathsome task Not knowing if we wake or sleep ; But in the end we lift the plum
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"Verily, I say unto thee, many are the adepts that have looked upon the back parts of my father, and cried, "our eyes fail before the glory of thy countenance."
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"Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)"
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"Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license."
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"When we've all finished talking, there's something that never utters a word, but goes right down through the earth, plumb to the centre."
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"But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another."
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"Like clouds in rain, like seas Exultant as they roll, We mix in ecstasies, And, as breeze melts in breeze, Thy soul becomes my soul."
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"All this is true and false; and it is true and false to say that it is true and false."
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"Love in a night shall live and die, Love in a day shall wing and fly; Love in the Spring shall last an hour, Easily fade a spring-tide flower."
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"This is th' abyss. Behold wherein I lurk The lazar-house my mind, wherein do work The horrid charnel-priests, whose loathly song Sickens my soul, and quells the spirit strong."
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"Sleep I forget. Her silky breath no longer fans my ears; I dream I float on some forgotten stream that hath a saviour still of death,"
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"Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt"
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"Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains."
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"It is as if the first diviner of absinthe had been indeed a magician intent upon a combination of sacred drugs which should cleanse, fortify and perfume the human soul."
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"The technical developments of almost every form of wealth [e.g., oil, minerals] are the forebears of Big Business; and Big Business, directly or indirectly, is the immediate cause of War."
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"She it is, she, that found me In the morphia honeymoon; With silk and steel she bound me In her poisonous milk she drowned me, Even now her arms surround me"
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"Thou hast no right but to do thy will... For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect."
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"Stab your demoniac smile to my brain, Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine"
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"We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia."
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"Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!"
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"I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed."
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"To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death."
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"Light illuminates the path of humanity: it is our own fault if we go over the brink."
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"The Great Work is the uniting of opposites. It may mean the uniting of the soul with God, of the microcosm with the macrocosm, of the female with the male, of the ego with the non-ego—or what not."
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"The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites."
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"Chaos is Peace… Blackness, blackness intolerable, before the beginning of the light. This is the first verse of Genesis. Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms!"
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"Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure."
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"Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure."
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"Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light."
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"A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not."
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"30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops & does nought. 31. If Power asks why, then is Power weakness."
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"This is the Night wherein I'm lost, the Love through which I am no longer"
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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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"Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell."
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"A man friends are more capable of working him harm than strangers; and his greatest danger lies in his own habits."
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"The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it."
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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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"Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee."
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"This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love."
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"64. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky."
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