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"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
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"the confluent smallpox – invented perhaps as the cruellest remedy for human vanity (II)"
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Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.
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"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."
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"Im trying to die correctly, but its very difficult, you know."
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"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."
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"Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness."
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"Old age is an insult. Its like being smacked."
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