Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.Lawrence Durrell
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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Music is only love looking for words.
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They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures-and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
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Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
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It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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