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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
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No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
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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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The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
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