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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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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