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Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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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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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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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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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
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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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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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