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It is not peace we seek but meaning.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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