I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
Aleister CrowleyBut neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.
Aleister CrowleyBalance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
Aleister Crowley