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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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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
Autobiographer
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Space
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Natures
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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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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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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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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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