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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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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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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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