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“Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.”
― Pierrot & Columbine
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.”
― Pierrot & Columbine
“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
― Conversations With Tennessee Williams
― Conversations With Tennessee Williams
“They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense”
― In Cold Blood
― In Cold Blood
“I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.”
― Diary of a Drug Fiend
― Diary of a Drug Fiend
“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”
― The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
― The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
John Cocchiara’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at John Cocchiara’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Classics, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, mysticism, tarot, divination, magic, wicca, witchcraft, social-science, magick, occult, natural-history, history-of-science, astronomy, geology, geography, engineering, popular-science, biology, evolution, physics, new-age, belief, superstition, travelogue, psychological-thriller, paganism, atheism, cults, judaism, church, buddhism, theology, thelema, eastern-philosophy, skepticism, metaphysics, theory, humor, jokes, stand-up, comedian, food-history, microhistory, medieval, world-history, european-history, american-history, indigenous-history, prehistory, conspiracy-theories, demons, witches, angels, vampires, ghosts, and wizards
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