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Lawrence Durrell

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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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Interview in The Observer, 1990

 
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Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.

 
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