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To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.... A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honourable to which a man can be called?

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), British occultist. The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, ch. 68 (1929, revised 1970).

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