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.

Quote by Aleister Crowley

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I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the...

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the...

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for...

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for...

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank...

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline...

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that...

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that...

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts....

Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts....

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of...

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of...

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely...

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely...

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change,...

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change,...

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who...

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who...

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a...

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a...

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

Chinese civilisation is so systematic that wild animals have been abolished on principle.

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty....

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty....

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next...

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next...

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about...

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about...

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

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

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes...

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes...