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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laught

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

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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. – Lawrence Durrell

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