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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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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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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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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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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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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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