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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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I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time – those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. – 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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Imagination
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. – Isaiah Berlin

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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. – Helen Rowland

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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. – George Orwell

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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. – Nicholas Murray Butler

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There are three principles in a mans being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I dont do what I say. – Martin Buber

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If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things. – Gary Numan

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