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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.
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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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