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A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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.
Guilt always hurries towards its complem... (more Lawrence Durrell quotes)
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