Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.


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Everyday life brings opportunities for love and romance. It is up to you to make them lasting memori...
STEPHANY CROWLEY
Men are like sour apples, they can make you pucker, make you cringe, and still make your mouth water...
STEPHANY CROWLEY
The fact is that very few of us know what words mean; fewer still take the trouble to enquire. We ca...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
Also, asceticism is all right when it is the proper means of attaining some special end. It is when ...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fu...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
Remember that which is written: "Moderate strength rings the bell: great strength returns the penny....
ALEISTER CROWLEY
On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduc...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
So nobody must be allowed to think at all. Down with the public schools! Children must be drilled me...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of intern...
MONICA CROWLEY
Economically and culturally, our identity is much more diversified and complex than it used to be.
WALT CROWLEY
It took a little therapy, but we recovered.
WALT CROWLEY
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electabilit...
MONICA CROWLEY
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of so...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off ever...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
You're always saying people don't like you but people can't like something that's not there.
CATH CROWLEY
Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out...
MONICA CROWLEY
Do many guys ask you out twice?"
"Only the ones with balls.
CATH CROWLEY
I spent the weekend after our date wishing I could stab him with my fluffy-duck pen and staring at t...
CATH CROWLEY
One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
We are deeply disappointed by the verdict. Throughout this case we have seen no evidence that Mr. Po...
PJ CROWLEY
Assembly of the first F-35 is our most visible achievement to date. Initiation of electrical power a...
DAN CROWLEY
There's a significant lack of equivalents in relation to civil partnership and partnership rights fo...
NIALL CROWLEY
Failing in love is not sad, only failing to love is sad. Love may wound, but truly sad is the chance...
STEPHANY CROWLEY
As tragic as this result is, unfortunately, it is not a surprise. We have been afraid for several we...
SHEILA CROWLEY
every man and woman is a star
ALEISTER CROWLEY
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be in...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
I slept with Faith, and found a corpse in my arms on awaking; I drank and danced all night with Doub...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
We place no reliance on virgin or pidgeon.Our method is science, our aim is religion.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. . ...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy as...
ALEISTER CROWLEY
We hope this important step will lead to further releases and will help all Nigerians come together ...
PJ CROWLEY
If you knew Val like we know him in the organization, you wouldn't be terribly surprised that he's p...
TERRY CROWLEY