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Truth is what most contradicts itself.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Art like life is an open secret.
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Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
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Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
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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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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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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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It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
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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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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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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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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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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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