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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
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Lawrence Durrell"the confluent smallpox – invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)"
Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."
"Im trying to die correctly, but its very difficult, you know."
"That house with its remoteness and the islands going down like soft gongs all the time into the amazing blue, and I shall never,never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold. But then of course … youth does mean happiness, it does mean love, and thats something you cant get over."
"Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness."
"Old age is an insult. Its like being smacked."