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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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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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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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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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A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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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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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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