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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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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
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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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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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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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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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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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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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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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