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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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Meaning
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Peace

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There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
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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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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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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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Art like life is an open secret.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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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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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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