Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 27, 1912 - November 7, 1990
Birthday: February 27
Death: November 7
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: Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.14, Faber & Faber
topic: Art, Destiny, Imagination, True Potential