Lawrence Durrell quote: For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; ...

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 do the ordinary people, but to fulfill it in its true potential - the ...

~ Lawrence Durrell ~

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