"What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men."

-- Aleister Crowley

#Pride Quotes #Men Quotes #Abuse Quotes

“We should not say how's business, but where is business”
“A real man makes his own luck,”
“Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.”

Source : James Montgomery (1838). “Lectures on general literature, poetry &c: delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831”, p.67
“Whenever anyone, Buddhist or not, sees a Temple or an image of Buddha they receive blessings.”
“We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.”
“How was I supposed to concentrate on my mental health when my therapist was encased in orange sparkle madness?”
“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”
“Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.”

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