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Lawrence Durrell Inspirational Quotes (61)

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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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