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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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Peace

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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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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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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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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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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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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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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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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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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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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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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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