Quote by Lawrence Durrell
Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafal

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were. – 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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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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Time
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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. – English Proverb

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Heroes/Heroism

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Heroes/Heroism

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost. – Arthur Ashe

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Heroes/Heroism

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Heroes/Heroism

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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth. – Sara Teasdale

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People still dont appreciate how ephemeral success is. – Nate Silver

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