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Correspondence from Aleister Crowley to Gerald Kelly
8 Bis Rue Campagne lere. Montparnasse.
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[14 January 1903]
My dear Gerald.
I was very sorry to hear last night from Simpson your bad news, though how bad is not very clear. I should like to remember at such times that sorrow is not less so because unapparent and in my intense happiness of last night (while you were going an unpleasant journey on a bitter errand)—for E. was with me—there was sorrow implicit therein. I don't know if this sort of thing seems cold comfort: it is all I have to give and it is sufficient for myself at all times. And if my comfort is poor my sympathy is large and warm not only for you, for whom I shall always cherish the deepest admiration and affection, but for the others of your family, less fortified mentally (for Christian consolation is a poor thing, as far as I have observed its operation) than yourself to oppose a fortress to the battalions of calamity, and to build an island in the seas of tomorrow.
Ever yours ever.
Aleister Crowley.
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