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“Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“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, The Book of Lies

“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, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

“Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with the Will.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth

“Every man and every woman is a star.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

“I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Love is the law, love under will.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

“We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“The key of joy is disobedience.”
― Aleister Crowley

“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

“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

“Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

“There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Book of the Law

“The first condition of success in magick is purity of purpose.”
― Aleister Crowley, The Moonchild