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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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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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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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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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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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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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