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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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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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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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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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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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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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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
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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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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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