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Art like life is an open secret.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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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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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
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I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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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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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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 a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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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.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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