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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.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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 takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
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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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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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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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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
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