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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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No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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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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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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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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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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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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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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