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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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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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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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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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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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