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Lawrence Durrell Inspirational Quotes (61)

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
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Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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