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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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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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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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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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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 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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The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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