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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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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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