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I've alwayd believed that our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
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His profession [diplomacy] — offered him something like a long Jesuitical training in self-deception which enabled him to present an ever more highly polished surface to the world without deepening his human experience [-] for he lived surrounded by his ambitious and sycophantic fellows who taught him only how to excel in forms of address, and the elaborate kindnesses which, in pleasing, pave the way to advancement.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
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I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket.
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Lawrence Durrell
Born:
February 27, 1912
Died:
November 7, 1990
(aged 78)
Bio:
Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.
Known for:
Justine (1957)
Mountolive (1958)
Balthazar (1958)
The Black Book (1938)
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