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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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'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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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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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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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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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
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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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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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 effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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 only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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