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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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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
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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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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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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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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
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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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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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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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