Quotes From "Diary Of A Drug Fiend" By Aleister Crowley

I've often thought that there isn't any
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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. Aleister Crowley
I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane,...
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I seem to remember asking myself if I was insane, and answering, ''Of couse I am - sanity is a compromise. Sanity is the thing that keeps one back. Aleister Crowley
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Stab your demoniac smile to my brain, Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine Aleister Crowley
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We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. Aleister Crowley
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...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention. Aleister Crowley
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She it is, she, that found me In the morphia honeymoon; With silk and steel she bound me In her poisonous milk she drowned me, Even now her arms surround me Aleister Crowley
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Until you've got your mouth full of cocaine, you don't know what kissing is. One kiss goes on from phase to phase like one of those novels by Balzac and Zola and Romain Rolland and D. H. Lawrence and those chaps. And you never get tire. You're on fourth speed all the time, and the engine purrs like a kitten, a big white kitten with the stars in its whiskers. Aleister Crowley
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..we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might be constituted so that he liked it. And so long as his peculiarity doesn't damage or interfere with other people, there's no reason why he shouldn't be left alone. But if it is the man's fixed belief that sawdust eating is essential to human happiness; if he attributes almost everything that happens either to the effects of eating it or not eating it; if he imagines that most of the people he meets are also sawdust-eaters, and above all, if he thinks that the salvation of the world depends entirely upon making laws to compel people to eat sawdust, whether they like it or not, then it is fair to say that his mind is unbalanced on the subject; and that, further, the practice itself, however innocent it may appear, is in that particular case perverse. Sanity consists in the proper equilibrium of ideas in general. That is the only sense in which it is true that genius is connected with insanity. Aleister Crowley
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And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored. Aleister Crowley