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The Book of Lies

Brad Meltzer--author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate--returns with his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date. In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the wo

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Characters

Aleister Crowley (5)Brad Meltzer (1)

“Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: tastes, Fetishes, Perversion, Repugnant, Pleasure

“The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Craving, Limitation

“A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Roses, Red, Color Spectrum

“Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream,…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Dreams, Sleep, Imperfections, Consciousness, Truth

“Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations.”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

Tagged: Truth, Deception, Projection, Hallucinations, Abyss

“So much harm comes into this world when the wrong thing is said. But that’s nothing compared to the pain from what goes unsaid.”

— Brad Meltzer, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Unsaid Feelings, Communication