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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.

Source: Justine, pt. 1 (1957).
-- Lawrence Durrell, (Feb 27 1912-1990), Indian-English novelist; His chief work was the four-art novel Alexandria Quartet, completed in 1960.

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