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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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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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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
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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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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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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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