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> [“The wise pleasure seeker, having realised they are "different degrees of desire" and never desirable, gives up both Virtue and Vice and becomes a Kiaist. Riding the Shark of his desire he crosses the ocean of the dual principle and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/the-wise-pleasure-seeker-having-realised-they-are-different-degrees/)

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## More by Austin Osman, Spare

> [“Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is over-run! Is it by symbolizing we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/others-praise-ceremonial-magic-and-are-supposed-to-suffer-much/)

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> [“Oh, God, thou art the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full of misery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/oh-god-thou-art-the-stagnant-environment-all-is-quackery-these/)

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> [“If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe .  .  .  .  however much…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/if-you-could-truly-believe-we-should-realise-the-virtue-of-it-we-are/)

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> [“Virtue: Pure Art ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/virtue-pure-art/)

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> [“There is no illusion but consciousness! This consciousness is ever the smiling monument commemorating "Whether you ever really enjoyed Life"! ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/there-is-no-illusion-but-consciousness-this-consciousness-is-ever-the/)

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> [ “Sigils are the means of guiding and uniting the partially free belief\[27\] with an organic desire, its carriage and retention till its purpose served… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/sigils-are-the-means-of-guiding-and-uniting-the-partially-free-belief/)

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> [“Something is causing Pain and something energizes the Agony: may it not be caused through the latent Idea of Supreme Bliss? And this eternal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/something-is-causing-pain-and-something-energizes-the-agony-may-it/)

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> [“Belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief is not freedom. Belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. Consider the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/belief-well-earns-the-terrible-hatred-of-the-vitality-belief-is-not/)

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> [“The difference between good and evil is a matter of profundity. Which is nearer you, self-love and its immorality or love and morals? Not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/the-difference-between-good-and-evil-is-a-matter-of-profundity-which/)

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> [“The law of Kia is its ever original purpose, undetermined, without change the emanations, through our conception they materialize and are of that duality,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/the-law-of-kia-is-its-ever-original-purpose-undetermined-without/)

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> [“The "I" principle has reached the "Does not matter- need not be" state, and is not related to form. Save and beyond it, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/the-i-principle-has-reached-the-does-not-matter-need-not-be-state-and/)

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> [“Man in the misery of his illusions and unsatisfied desires, wings his flight to different religions, and doctrines, seeks redeception, a hypnotic, a palliative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/man-in-the-misery-of-his-illusions-and-unsatisfied-desires-wings-his/)

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> [“MAGICAL obsession is that state when the mind is illuminated by sub-conscious activity evoked voluntarily by formula at our own time, etc., for inspiration.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/magical-obsession-is-that-state-when-the-mind-is-illuminated-by-sub/)

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> [“You remember in your youth the thought "that this world is a curious place" in the emotion when you felt "why" as to whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/you-remember-in-your-youth-the-thought-that-this-world-is-a-curious/)

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> [“Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all time (this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/austin-osman-spare-2/assimilated-by-the-deceit-of-its-divine-origin-its-tenets-are-reward/)

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