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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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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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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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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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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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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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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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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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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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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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