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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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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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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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