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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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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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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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