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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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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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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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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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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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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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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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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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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'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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