“Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.”

“Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon”

“In point of fact, most witches probably know more about liquor and how to properly drink it than many ancient and knowledgeable bartenders.”

“And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.”

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

“So perhaps the best resource is to meet everything passively, to make yourself an inert mass, to stare at others with the eyes of an animal, to feel no compunction, with your own hand to throttle down whatever ghostly life remains in you.”

“Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.”