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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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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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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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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 only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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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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