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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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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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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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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 effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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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