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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Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at...

Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at...

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....

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

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.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

Every man and woman is a star.

Every man and woman is a star.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

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...

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...

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so...

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so...

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...

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take...

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take...

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...

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

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...

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 was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so...

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so...

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....

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.

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...