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Aleister Crowley
Aleister Crowley
English Critic
Born: Oct 12, 1875
Died: Dec 1, 1947
Always Life Me People Science World
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I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. Aleister Crowley
Faith Morning Doubt Slept Danced Drank Corpse All Night Arms Awakening Found Her Night
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales. Aleister Crowley
Nature Natural People Drunk Manners Fighting Morality Facts Instincts Tales Suppress Make Modern Them Ignorant Keep
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley
Life Change Mistake Experience Joy Every Consists Constant Attainable Simply Ideal New Exercise Up Die Stop Energies Eternal Mankind Means Growth Enjoyment Set
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner. Aleister Crowley
Good Memory Insulted Understand Did Refused Being Asked Manner
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. Aleister Crowley
Complete Virtues Worthless Collection Willpower Absence Talents Most Wholly
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. Aleister Crowley
Education Worth Discipline Mind First Reading Must Something Chatter Feed Read Refrain Refuse Canned While Newspaper Therefore Resolutely
The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach. Aleister Crowley
Science People Doctor World Assumes Indeed Guilty Has-Been Must Only Investigate Allowed Studies Study Doctor Who Without Always Been Just Anything Reproach Leper Leprosy Who Conscience Recently
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. Aleister Crowley
Myself Woman World Kiss First Lust Spent Touch Like First Kiss Boy His Asking Next Utterly Imagine
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Aleister Crowley
Law Thou Wilt Shall Whole
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. Aleister Crowley
Word Devil Become Sense Believe Him Content His Chief Get Personal Staff Wanted Hold Ordinary Ordinary Sense Personally Serve
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. Aleister Crowley
People Morality Only Ordinary Ordinary People
Intolerance is evidence of impotence. Aleister Crowley
Evidence Intolerance Impotence
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad. Aleister Crowley
Bible Seriously Mad Must Would Take Go Were
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. Aleister Crowley
Me Book Never Message Gods Mankind Should Published
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics. Aleister Crowley
Physics Opportunity Practice Judgment Difficult Other Magic Comprehension More Most Sciences Errors Branch Than Any Arts
The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell. Aleister Crowley
People Reflect Hell Despise Evidently Intolerance Neighbor Consoling Religious Able Fact Headed Supreme Account Goes Door Far Next Next Door Satisfaction
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. Aleister Crowley
Evil Enormous Pretense Menacing Only Makes Does Exist Pious Vague
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. Aleister Crowley
Everyone Guilty Sexual Horror Fact Part Himself Knows Due Essentially So-Called Public

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