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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.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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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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