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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
Autobiographer
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Meaning
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Peace

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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
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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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'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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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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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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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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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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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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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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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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