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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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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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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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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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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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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
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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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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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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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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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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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