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Lawrence Durrell
Profession : Writer
Birth : February 27, 1912
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The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
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
Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
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
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
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
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
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
Lawrence Durrell
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell
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
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