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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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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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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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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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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.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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We are the children of our landscape it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to 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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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