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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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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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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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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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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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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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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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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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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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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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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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An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
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