"Truth is what most contradicts itself." — Lawrence Durrell
"Truth is what most contradicts itself."
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93 Quotes by Lawrence Durrell
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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Shyness has laws you can only give yourself; tragically to those who least understand.
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or…
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It is not peace we seek but meaning.
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The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the…
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Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
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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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The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible…
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Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they…
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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
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The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we…
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The observant man recognizes many mysteries into which he can not pretend to see, and he remembers that the world…
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Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most…
— Henry Fielding
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If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own…
— Elbert Hubbard
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We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts…
— Baron de Montesquieu
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Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.
— Mark Thomas
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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
— Thomas a Kempis
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We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad…
— Antisthenes
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My overriding belief is that it is always possible for criminals to improve and that by its very finality the…
— Dalai Lama
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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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People who lose children have their hearts warped into weird shapes. Some try to deny it has happened. Some pretend…
— Michael Robotham
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