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We are the children of our landscape it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to 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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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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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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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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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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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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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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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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 disappears with the telling of it.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
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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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