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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
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Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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