“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

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poet, mountaineer, occultist 1875–1947

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