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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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 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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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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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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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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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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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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