Creatures Quote by Lawrence Durrell

“These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures, unique of their own kind, dredged up from the floors of some unexplored ocean.”

Lawrence Durrell

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Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

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“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually…

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To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

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The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of…

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It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.

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“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every…

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Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

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Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

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We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time -…

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It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

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“...man is only an extension of the spirit of place.”

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“God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who…

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Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and…

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