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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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