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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.
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
 Lawrence Durrell

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
 Lawrence Durrell
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
 Lawrence Durrell
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
 Lawrence Durrell
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with which the ordinary tourist can get in touch just by sitting quite quietly over a glass of wine in a Paris bistro.
 Lawrence Durrell
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
 Lawrence Durrell