Quote#Dreams
She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its…
Quote byAleister Crowley · 1875–1947
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley 1914-1920 (1972), p. 193.
English (original)
She certainly gave me what I've been losing. Youth's intensity, its craving, the soul-priapism, huge lust and fierce to her, clamour for her to realize with me that mightiest marriage-dream, that Sacrament of Satan that may be consummated only beneath Night's dome, in utmost silence, because its Elements are not symbols of things, but They themselves.
— Aleister Crowley
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