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01c. 1911 AD

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 / quote

02c. 1911 AD

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 / quote

03c. 1911 AD

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 / quote

04c. 1911 AD

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Aleister Crowley / quote

05c. 1911 AD

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 / quote

06c. 1911 AD

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley / quote