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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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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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There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.
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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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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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