"To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest
~ Aleister Crowley ~












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