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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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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
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The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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Truth is what most contradicts itself.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
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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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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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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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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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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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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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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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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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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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