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  1. Lawrence Durrell _ The Avignon Quintet

    There is always a philosophy behind the misadventures of men, even if they are unaware of it.' And
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  2. Lawrence Durrell _ The Avignon Quintet

    A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, and these findings about the penetralia of sexual life gave the writer a sort of justification for a native acerbity. Afterwards, when love left him in the lurch and he became the wounded man who was such a trial to us all, he took refuge in a laughter and cynicism which were far from his real nature – a secretive one. He had at last discovered that love had no pith in it, and that the projection of one's own feelings upon the image of a beloved was in the long run an act of self-mutilation.
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  3. Lawrence Durrell _ The Avignon Quintet

    When one is fully extended by day and exhausted every evening one lives differently, without the weight of yesterday or tomorrow on one's shoulders. I
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  4. Lawrence Durrell _ The Avignon Quintet

    There is nothing stranger than to love somebody who is mad, or who is intermittently so. The weight, the strain, the anxiety is a heavy load to bear – if only because among these confusional states and hysterias loom dreadful probabilities like suicide or murder. It shakes one's hold also on one's own grasp of reality; one realises how precariously we manage
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