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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 is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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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Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
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Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
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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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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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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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