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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.

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'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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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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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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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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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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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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We are the children of our landscape it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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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 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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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