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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
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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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'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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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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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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