Quotes from book
Moonchild

Aleister Crowley

Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians, over an unborn child. It was first published by Mandrake Press in 1929 and its recent edition is published by Weiser.

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“Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!”

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“May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!”

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“It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.”

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