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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
Lawrence Durrell
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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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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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Art like life is an open secret.
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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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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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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 heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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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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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
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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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