“Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say “no.” I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.”
Aleister Crowley
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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
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“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
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“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
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“I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.”
Aleister Crowley
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“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
Aleister Crowley
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“The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”
Aleister Crowley
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“Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.”
Aleister Crowley
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“Intolerance is evidence of impotence.”
Aleister Crowley
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“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
Aleister Crowley
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“The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
Aleister Crowley
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