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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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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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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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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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