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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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.
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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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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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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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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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