“I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.”

—  Aleister Crowley, book Diary of a Drug Fiend

Source: Diary of a Drug Fiend

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poet, mountaineer, occultist 1875–1947

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