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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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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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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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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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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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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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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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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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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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