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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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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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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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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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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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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.
Lawrence Durrell
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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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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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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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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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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Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell
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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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
Lawrence Durrell
