Lawrence Durrell
Writer
1912-02-27
Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
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And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.
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... history - the lamp which illumines national character...
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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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Art like life is an open secret.
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Each of our five senses contains an art.
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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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Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.
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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said, Your stay with us is so brief, let us not be reminded of the flight of the hours. God made eternity. Let us escape from the despotism of time altogether. These ancient and hereditary politenesses filled Nessim with emotion.
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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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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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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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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
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Each of our five senses contains an art.
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... history - the lamp which illumines national character...
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You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
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And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.
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Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions that allow the forebrain to chatter) there is a soul tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.
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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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People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
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