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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.
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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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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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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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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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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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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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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