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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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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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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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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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There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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