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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.
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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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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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
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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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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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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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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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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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