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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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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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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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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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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