by Andrea Pazienza
It is for a refusal that we are alive in the world, for being a cliff in the sea of time against which the infinite waves break becoming foam. Our word is no.
Life is the price we pay so that our being can exist.
Pär Fabian Lagerkvist, born 23 May 1891, Sun in Gemini, Moon in Scorpio, Swedish author.
Image: by Andrea Pazienza, born 23 May 1956, Sun in Gemini, Moon in Scorpio, Italian illustrator († 1988)
Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617 – 18 May 1692) English antiquary, politician, officer of arms, astrologer and student of alchemy.
Kenneth Grant (23 May 1924 – 15 January 2011) English ceremonial magician and prominent advocate of the Thelemic religion, poet, novelist, and writer, founder of his own Thelemic organisation, the Typhonian Ordo Templi Orientis—later renamed the Typhonian Order.