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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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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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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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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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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
Lawrence Durrell
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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We are the children of our landscape it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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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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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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.
Lawrence Durrell
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
Lawrence Durrell
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell
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.
Lawrence Durrell
