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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 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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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
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The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
Lawrence Durrell
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
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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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
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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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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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