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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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'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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We are the children of our landscape it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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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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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
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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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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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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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