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Lawrence Durrell (25)

Birth:	27th February, 1912
Death:	7th November, 1990
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Dramatist, Novelist, Poet

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• Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

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• Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

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• The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love’s a charity ward, you know.

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• We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

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• Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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• There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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• The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

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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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• Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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• Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.

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• No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

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• Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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• Music is only love looking for words.

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• Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

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• It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you’d do something else.

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• It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

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• I’m trying to die correctly, but it’s very difficult, you know.

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• I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

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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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• History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

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