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Lawrence Durrell

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Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Lawrence Durrell
Brazil is bigger than Europe wilder than Africa and weirder than Baffin Land.
Lawrence Durrell
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Lawrence Durrell
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Lawrence Durrell
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell
I dont believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there but which he has not experienced.
Lawrence Durrell
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper or at least not about love.
Lawrence Durrell
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...
Lawrence Durrell
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.
Lawrence Durrell
Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.
Lawrence Durrell
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
Lawrence Durrell
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
Lawrence Durrell
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Lawrence Durrell
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
Lawrence Durrell
A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.
Lawrence Durrell
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Lawrence Durrell

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