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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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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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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The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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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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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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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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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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