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Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

Lawrence Durrell

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Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
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Art like life is an open secret.
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
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Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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