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

~Lawrence Durrell

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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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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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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

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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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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: January 27th, 1912

Died: November 7th, 1990

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