"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."
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"The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully."
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"The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits."
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"There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!"
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"I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come."
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"Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will."
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"I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret this. All I ask is that my results should convince seekers after truth that there is beyond doubt something worth while seeking, attainable by methods more or less like mine. I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics, or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle."
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"Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs."
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"The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation."
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"Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music."
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"Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself."
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"I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them."
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"Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step."
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"Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan"
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"They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman."
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"This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency."
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"I am alone. There is no God where I am."
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"It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest spiritual working one must choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force; a male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory."
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"As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars on a club committee, or men of science on a jury; all their virtues vanish, and their vices pop out, reinforced by the self-confidence which the power of numbers is bound to bestow."
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"I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view."
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