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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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'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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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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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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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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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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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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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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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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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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
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