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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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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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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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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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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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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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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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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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.
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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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