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...the true test of the perversity of a pleasure is that it occupies a disproportionate amount of the attention.

…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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  1. …the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul. – Aleister Crowley
  2. Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest – Aleister Crowley
  3. You seek money, you’ll get it; you seek purpose, and attain it, you’ll get disproportionate amount of money along with. Just be honest! – Sandeep Sahajpal
  4. Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. – Aleister Crowley
  5. 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
  6. Don’t talk for five minutes, there’s a good chap! I’ve a strange feeling come over me–almost as if I were going to think! – Aleister Crowley
  7. Stab your demoniac smile to my brain,Soak me in cognac, love, and cocaine – Aleister Crowley
  8. To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one’s self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. – Aleister Crowley
  9. Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2) – Aleister Crowley
  10. Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest! – Aleister Crowley
  11. The keystone-¦ some have called God, some Brahma, some Zeus-¦ some even IAO-¦ but in truth, O seeker, it is Thy-SELF. – Aleister Crowley
  12. There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will. – Aleister Crowley
  13. Love in a night shall live and die,Love in a day shall wing and fly;Love in the Spring shall last an hour,Easily fade a spring-tide flower. – Aleister Crowley
  14. …in the absence of will power, the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. – Aleister Crowley
  15. We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. – Aleister Crowley
  16. With fire we test gold, and with gold we test women, and with women we test men. – Eyden I
  17. True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. – Victor Hugo
  18. Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test-¦consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. – Milan Kundera
  19. But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. – Leo Tolstoy
  20. A disproportionate number of stories are love stories -“ and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love? – Christopher Bram
  21. Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government? – Barbara W Tuchman
  22. Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence. – Dave Hickey
  23. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature. – Blaise Pascal
  24. Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge. – Simon Armitage
  25. Beware! devil occupies your soul with forbidden desires – Muhammad Anwar Jalil
  26. Part of Creator occupies outer part of universe. – Toba Beta
  27. The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other. – AW Tozer
  28. The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things. – Luke Slattery
  29. No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work everything else goes to waste. – Sunday Adelaja
  30. No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work, everything else goes to waste. – Sunday Adelaja
  31. If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we’ve been knocked down, then we’re spending our lives lying down. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  32. Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. – John Barrymore
  33. It’s not the amount of Bible you read, it’s the amount of Bible you believe. – Carlos A Rodriguez
  34. a small amount of kindness can make a large amount of difference – J Yates
  35. Do you know the amount of evil done by well-meaning humans? Oodles. Do you know the amount done by ill-meaning devils? Infinitesimal. – Thomm Quackenbush
  36. No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future – Umar ibn AlKhattab
  37. It is not the amount of friends that is important, but the amount of integrity, sincerity, and love in your friends – Charles F Glassman
  38. No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. – Umar Ibn AlKhattaab
  39. Your test is to forgive those who have hurt you, when you pass your test you will see your breakthrough – Jeanette Coron
  40. There is a Persian proverb: ‘To test that which has been tested is ignorance.’ To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. – Idries Shah

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