“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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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell 
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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.
Lawrence Durrell
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
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