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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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A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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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