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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

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—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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