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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.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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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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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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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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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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