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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
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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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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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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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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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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
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Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
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A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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