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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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