"To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage."

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Source : Eliphas Levi (1996). “The Paradoxes of the Highest Science”, p.45, Health Research Books

Eliphas Levi

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“A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”
“I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people.... I think beauty is an expression of love.”
“I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly â€” though not exclusively â€” who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.”
“Its not over, until the Lord says its over.”
“The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother.”
“Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.”
“Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust, Your childhood is a bower: Let my fingers wander in the moss Where glows the rosebud Let me among the clean grasses Drink the drops of dew Which sprinkle the tender flower”

Source : Paul Verlaine (1948). “Forty Poems”
“But there are 90 million gun owners in the United States. Only 3.5 million want the insurance and magazines and the various things you get for joining the NRA.”

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