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Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself tragically to those who least understand.
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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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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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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
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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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I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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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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He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
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Truth disappears with the telling of it.
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