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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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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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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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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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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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