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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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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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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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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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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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'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
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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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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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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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Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
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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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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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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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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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