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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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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 realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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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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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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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
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Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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