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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
Autobiographer
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Novelist
Playwright
Poet
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Time
Aware
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Night
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Two
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Become
Anything
Yield
Without
Loneliness

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