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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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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 like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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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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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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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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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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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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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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